Try to remember that Tranny is a troll, and there is no reason to believe that anything he says is true.
I fully accept what you say, JohnD, but transam has been whipping up hatred against all things not British or Austrian and all things not Christian or Catholic since long before I arrived. I fully suspect he 's been promoting his pernicious brand of hatred ever since he joined the forum.
He is a dangerous individual who trivialises the atrocities committed by his relatives (torture, medical experiments and possibly rape on prisoners in Auschwitz) while pointing the finger at atrocities committed by anyone else. His hypocrisy is amoral.
He is dangerous because his behaviour is mimicked and reproduced by others. It could be argued that he seeks to, and is effective in radicalising others, e.g. Dangee, just pumps and others who have started reproducing his anti-French hatred.
Transam systematically and intentionally targets various groups to promote his hatred, Chines, N Korean, Iranians, Muslims, Romanians, and possibly many more that I am not aware of, and now his recent anti-French tirade.
He might hoodwink many, e.g. Mottie, into accepting his behaviour as trolling or banter, but because a) he claims to be ignoring me, he does not see my responses, and b) he started his racist campaign long before I arrived.
Now the worst of it is that site owner(s) and mods have supported and protected his behaviour for many years, by their actions and by their inactions.
By their actions of banning posters, and deleting posts and threads that confront transam's racism, and by their inaction of allowing transam's continuous and persistent stream of insidious racist posts. That and transam's behaviour is responsible for creating an endemic culture of racism in this forum.
He's not just a troll, he's an amoral and hypocritical devout racist who trivialises and humourizes the atrocities of Nazis, and relishes the support of others that he recruits to his cause.
I wouldn't be surprised if my post is deleted, like so many more before it.
Perhaps I should print it out, with a link to it, and send it to a high profile anti-racist campaigner. If my post is deleted it will be living proof of the support and protection afforded to transam in his quest to promote racism.