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To: wardaddy

There is a story, can’t find it now. Some of Pattons men freed a camp and were so enraged by what they saw, the machined gun down some captured NAZI officers. They were to be charged and brought to military court. Patton lost the paper work.


62 posted on 10/19/2022 8:02:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple; Pelham; CatHerd

Yes that happened at a number of camps

One of the major camps maybe Dachau ..a young SS officer who had just arrived was given charge the day the camp fell when the culpable commander had already fled (later caught charged and hanged)

He tried to stop the killing of prisoners and surrendered the camp as peaceably as he could

He was executed that day anyway but line soldiers who grabbed

Bad luck for him or no good deed goes unpunished

Lots of reprisals not surprisingly

Frankly as bad as the camps were

Some of the most personal atrocities against Jews and others were in Ukraine and Lithuania and Croatia

And commited by civilians Rwanda style without firearms

Brutal stuff like pregnant women sliced open baby removed and bashed in front of her eyes

In a part of Ukraine contested by Poland Ukrainian nationalists under Bandera did this to polish ethnics

100,000 to 200,000

Eastern Europe is a vicious place Christian Comanches

Now Poland is Ukraine biggest supporter

Go figure


63 posted on 10/19/2022 8:26:52 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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