Not if they are spies in civilian clothing and not in their own country..........
Posted on 06/09/2021 7:48:31 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On June 9, 1944, the 2nd SS Panzer Division hanged 99 habitants of the French town Tulle as revenge upon the French Resistance.
On June 7, the Communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) guerrillas launched a pre-planned attack on German and milice positions in Tulle. By the 8th, the FTP had liberated the town* … temporarily.
Come the evening of the 8th, the 2nd SS Panzer Division — which had been stationed in southern France but was rumbling north to fortify the German position in the wake of the Allied landing at Normandy — arrived at Tulle and re-occupied the city.
On the morning of the 9th, the Germans went door to door and detained nearly all the men in Tulle over the age of 16, an estimated three to five thousand potential hostages. By the afternoon these had been efficiently culled to 120 semi-random targets for exemplary revenge to cow the populace, people who looked too scruffy to the Germans and didn’t have an alert contact with sufficient pull to exclude them from the pool. The count was determined, as a poster announcing the executions explained, as the multiple of 40 German soldiers estimated lost* during the FTP action....
Throughout the afternoon, that threat was enacted with nooses dangled along lampposts and balconies on the Avenue de la Gare — although not to the full 120 but rather to the odd number of 99. It remains unclear why the hangings stopped early; certainly it was no excess of sentiment on the part of the Panzer division, which had been redeployed to France after giving and getting terrible casualties on the far bloodier eastern front....
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Were any Nazis executed for this crime?.....................
Is it a crime to kill possible guerillas and their comrades? I am not being facetious.
Not if they are spies in civilian clothing and not in their own country..........
Such evil....
Isn’t the story behind that picture that the guy being shot had a few minutes earlier killed the family of the guy doing the shooting?
No but Lem did kill the family of a comrade of the shooter, Brig Gen Nguyen Loan.
Gen Loan emigrated to the US after the war and was almost deported back to communist Vietnam but the photographer vouched for him and he remained. I don’t know if he is alive or dead now.
Is it a crime to kill possible guerillas and their comrades? I am not being facetious.
The Nazis did quite a lot of that sort of thing during the war, much more in Eastern and Central Europe than in France.
When you invade their country, yes it’s a crime to simply murder them. The invader loses all kinds of rights.
I recall reading that this was a huge blunder on the part of the Panzer Division. D-Day had begun and the Panzers were desperately needed to help stop the invasion. Instead, they paused to punish the townspeople. Basically, they chose poorly, to the benefit of the invading military forces.
The 2nd Waffen SS Division “Das Reich’’ laid waste to the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944.
They slaughtered some 680 men, women and children and burnt the town.
It was never rebuilt and stands as a memorial to the brutality of the Nazis.
Every SS bastard should have been shot.
I do not think any Nazi stood trial. I have visited the place, Haunting.
Yes, I wonder how long Oradur sur Glane will last as a testament to the cruelty of the Nazis. I doubt many people go there as it is not near any of the usual tourist areas. Limoges is the largest city nearby, and besides pottery, there is not much business there.
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