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To: mlbford2
This kind of thing and goes on in every war.

I once met and had a long conversation with an old Belgian gentleman who served as an interpreter during WWII. Around the end of the war he and a major he was working with drove up to a small concentration camp where the guards had all lined up to surrender. The major and this guy got out of their jeep and the major said "who's the commander here?" The interpreter shouted out "wer ist der Commandant?". A German officer stepped forward, clicked his heels and saluted, whereupon the major pulled out his .45 and shot the guy right between the eyes. Never reported, never a complaint, and according to the fellow I spoke with not an uncommon occurrence.

36 posted on 11/16/2004 7:35:21 AM PST by katana
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To: katana

Didn't Patton lose the paper work for some of his men who were accused of shooting german officers at a concentration camp that they liberated?


74 posted on 11/19/2004 8:46:12 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: katana

I had to give O'Reilly a lot of credit the other night when he flayed some puke on his show for saying the Marine should be investigated and possibly charged for war crimes. O'Reilly ripped him good over it.


82 posted on 11/21/2004 4:04:22 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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