[RusIvan]

If he did it, because they were OTTOMAN POWs - that would be a genocide.==

WHo knows what was his first thought and intention? Maybe Napoleon just prevented by this the possible insurgency on his back lines. “Do not leave the alive enemy behind”. It is the american saying.
If you red the Stalin-Beria papers on Polish POW officers killings then you may find that those guys think same way. They prevented the hostility and possible insurgency which may stem from those officers if alive. Stalin let go all polish POW soldiers (much bigger numbers) but in same time decided to shoot all officers to leave first without command.
It is atrocities but hardly genocide.

[lizol]

WHo knows what was his first thought and intention? Maybe Napoleon just prevented by this the possible insurgency on his back lines. “Do not leave the alive enemy behind”. It is the american saying.
If you red the Stalin-Beria papers on Polish POW officers killings then you may find that those guys think same way. They prevented the hostility and possible insurgency which may stem from those officers if alive. Stalin let go all polish POW soldiers (much bigger numbers) but in same time decided to shoot all officers to leave first without command.

BS from you, as usual.

If that was Stalin's idea - he could easily send them to Vorkuta, or to some other equally nice place.

But he ordered to shoot them - as he wanted to destroy the elite of the Polish nation - to melt the rest into Soviet crowd.