the article didn’t give much background on this.
was the resistance fighter in plain clothes? spies are pretty much shot on the spot in a war setting.
I am not backing the SS, but the piece need to publish what went on(both sides, in detail) a little better.
I agree with the prior sentiment. War is Hell. People get shot. If you start trying to make criminals out of one side or the other, its going to come back and bite you in the ass the next time around.
When are we going to Hanoi to arrest those for torturing and murdering our POW?
Anyone in Hanoi who tortured our pilots should be held to account. Guarding the gate, even aggressively, is what soldiers do.
Sadistic predatory BS against surrendered powerless prisoners is wrong.
I think this guy probably deserves his fate for two reasons. He was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in 1949 for this. The minute they were liberated, the Dutch were out to prosecute this guy. Second, the SS rolled into his homeland and his response was to become a traitor and join that lowlife organization.
And sounds like the facts in the case were that he and another guy on the post with him took the loyal Dutch citizen to a warehouse and executed him.
I’d actually have more sympathy for him if he was a German, (as opposed to a traitorous Dutchman) who could actually say he was acting under direct orders.
Imagine America was invaded, and your brother was resisting the foreign invader in some way, but your old neighbor joined the worst of the enemy. He murders your brother in cold blood. I doubt most here would be willing to just shrug and say “that’s war” and let the treasonous neighbor have their nice golden years in happiness.
Most here, if they could find the SOB, would show up one night at the old traitors home with a suppressed 22 pistol.
Since it was the job of resistence fighters to kill German troops, I fail to see where a war crime was committed here. It is not as if the person killed was an innocent civilian bystander. The whole thing is simply ridiculous. A witch hunt no less.