[7th Cavalry]

my previous post was meant for Vedderman

[7th Cavalry]

Originally Posted by jackhunter21 ↗

Why should these prisoners get special treatment over what happened to them? What about the millions and millions of Germans murdered and rapped by the soviets and the millions of Germans who starved to death during the Great Depression while certain groups thrived. What about the people tortured in Iraq by saddam but also by the US government. These prisoners should be held to the same standards as anyone else.

I think the thing called the Eastern front would be your answer on the Russians. That and Stalingrad coming in a very close 2nd.

[Kerri]

Originally Posted by Vedderman ↗

Then you, like they, should be guilty of warcrimes.

Once those camps were liberated, those guards were prisoners of war. Allowing them to be beaten to death or murdered by their former charges is nothing short of gross negligence and maltreatment of prisoners. Such conduct is in violation of the Articles of War for any civilized country and I would be disgusted and ashamed to discover that an ancestor of mine had perpetrated such offenses.

You don't stop atrocities and barbarism with atrocities and fucking barbarism. Ignorant moron.

The crimes perpetuated against those committed to the death camps were too many, too inhumane, and so sadistic as to defy gruesome imagination. In a perfect world I would agree that indefensable cruelty and brutality should not be paradoxically the fix for vile acts against our fellow soecies members by other species members, but human nature being what it is...also horrible acts were committed against POW s, thousands perished while being marched to death, frozen, beaten, and starved. God only knows what else happens to POWs to this very day. War is a GROSS national product.

[Feirefiz]

I think that, generally, vedderman is right. But the sheer size and abnormity of the atrocities commited by the nazis obviously "overrode" any thoughts of moral in the persons that commited this particular war crime and this is understandable.
And the history books are wtritten by the winners.
We can look at this picture and call it a war crime but we should keep in mind that nobody was ever tried for this crime and so wee must concede that we have a crime but no actual criminal which makes the whole question a bit absurd...
Also, what is it with those war crimmes after all?
To me, there were at least 60 million crimes commited between 39 and 45 and the really gruesome fact about this is that most of those who commited the crimes were victims themselves.
Gaseous agents were banned from war after the Terrible events of ww1.
Did that make ww2 any better?
Of what high moral standards were the nazis not to use gases in their wars of aggression?
And of what high value is a law of war that can be easily overridden with terms like illegal combattant?

[K53]

[trean362]

Someone got pretty upset with her

[K53]

She deserved a new chance at life

[Budd Dwyer]

Originally Posted by K53 ↗

She deserved a new chance at life

Yea, right. You deserve to die too

[Watcher===]

There are plenty of pictures out there about what happened. It's easy to imagine the liberating soldiers feeling such revulsion and anger that feelings for the guards allowed them to turn a blind eye.

[radojota]

I think the paratrooper knows a thing or two about war.