Well, here we are. This is sick. Posters on this forum trying to excuse the Nazis because we did bad stuff too. This deliberately starving POWs story is debatable.
“Posters on this forum trying to excuse the Nazis because we did bad stuff too. This deliberately starving POWs story is debatable.”
There is absolutely no excuse for what the Nazis did period. But in turn there is no excuse for what we did either. Like kind evil is like kind evil and it cannot be excused just because of the source. there is no such thing as righteous evil.
And no, it is not debatable... We did it and it is factual history like it or not. The evil was the relabeling of these prisoners so that we did not have to treat and care for them properly as POWs based on the Geneva Convention. Pure evil...
“The camps were beyond overcrowded. Prisoners mostly slept without shelter, exposed to the elements. Rations were generally between 1000 and 1550 calories per day. There was often little or no access to clean drinking water. Thousands died. How many thousands depends on who you ask. Regardless, given the facts, these camps did not hold up to the conditions mandated by the Geneva Convention.
This issue was circumnavigated, however, by a decision made in 1943 to declare German soldiers taken prisoner not as POWs, but as Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF). With this characterization in place, things like lower rations and poor living conditions were inflicted without officially breaking what amounted to a binding international treaty.”