nor I if he killed someone outside of the Geneva convention rules. but by this article it is impossible to know whether he did or not.
and think about this.....there were plenty of our own GIs who were so sick of fighting the basturds (German, Japanese etc)that they took no prisoners. I cannot condemn my countrymen who watched his buddies get mowed down and then did what he though was needed as just punishment. War IS Hell.
Geneva Convention? I laugh at the legalistic gymnastics I often see used to try to excuse Nazis. Ok, Geneva convention, lets just go with that.
I bet the Dutch had laws about treason. Would you oppose his prosecution by the Dutch, for violating Dutch law? Should America have been unable to prosecute that guy who fought for the Taliban and murdered our CIA operative?
And its 180 degrees wrong to compare GIs and Marines who took no prisoners in battle, to a traitor who joined the enemy of his own free will and murdered his own countrymen.
Finally yes, war is hell. So maybe we should tell that to an SS whiner who doesn’t want his share of the hell.
He was a traitor,,, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The Geneva Convention would not have applied to resistance fighters because they were irregulars and not in uniform. However, other violations of Geneva occurred frequently, as we all know.
The greatest proof of this was the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, where the Germans treated captured partisans as prisoners of war, perhaps foreseeing war crimes trials in the future.