[Eva]

Malmedy was indeed a massacre, but the men responsible were just young rank and file members of a tank brigade who were ordered to shoot the enemy soldiers who were in the line of advancement (actually, I think it was retreat). The US soldiers had been left unattended on the road in front of the tank division and so were just all gunned down by the tanks before very many even had a chance to escape. Those who were not killed in the tank assault were killed by SS officers who walked among the dead and dying, shooting and stabbing anything that moved.

The men who were charged and sentenced to death were just the rank and rile, low ranking soldiers, almost all very young. McCarthy claimed that the sentences were too harsh for such low ranking soldiers and apparently someone agreed with him because the sentences were all commuted to time in jail, all I think less than twenty years.

[jackbill]

The men who were charged and sentenced to death were just the rank and rile, low ranking soldiers, almost all very young. McCarthy claimed that the sentences were too harsh for such low ranking soldiers and apparently someone agreed with him because the sentences were all commuted to time in jail, all I think less than twenty years.

Not, apparently, before a number of them were executed.