[withteeth]

"Babies were flung to the air and skewered by bayonets as they fell."

I remember my grandmother telling me that in WWl there was this story about the Huns. She was not German but she seemed to think that it was later accepted that this was war propoganda. Now whenever I read that about any army (no matter how obviously atrocious they were)I wonder if those particular stories are made up. ...

[wolficatZ]

"Babies were flung to the air and skewered by bayonets as they fell."

 

I have a video with a Filipino woman describing what she saw, exactly this actrocity; I seriously doubt she is making her eyewitness account up.

 

World War II Collection. Beverly Hills, CA, Fox Video/CBS News, 1996. 5 videocassettes.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Charles Kuralt, and Dan Rather host this series using documentary footage and interviews. Volume One: The Year of the Generals-(includes profiles of Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, MacArthur, Rommel, etc.)

 

[PotatoHeadMick]

Yes I remember hearing how the atrocities committed by the 'frightful Hun' during the First World War were just propaganda. The only thing is that recent research has proven that they were true! The Germans did massacre many Belgian civilians during their occupation and did 'rape' the city of Louvain. It would be a bit difficult in the light of their behaviour twenty years later that the German army became such a bunch of barbarians over night. And please spare me the claim that the Wehrmacht were honourable soldiers and that it was just the SS that committed atrocities, the regular German troops and policemen were fully involved in slaughtering innocent civilians.

The Japanese however made the Germans look like Sunday school teachers. If you don't believe what they did then read Iris Chang's 'The Rape of Nanking'it even has photos for the disbelievers.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Give me an email address and I'll send you the pictures.

[Charlespg]

I remember my grandmother telling me that in WWl there was this story about the Huns. She was not German but she seemed to think that it was later accepted that this was war propoganda. Now whenever I read that about any army (no matter how obviously atrocious they were)I wonder if those particular stories are made up. ...


in the case of WWII and The Japs unfortunately not