To: beaver fever
The Nazis were convicted in Nuremburg for crimes which were no crimes at the time they were committed (legally). There was no law allowing or forbidding anything on or out of the battlefield. But the idea of Nuremburg was, that some things simply cannot be right (such as executing civilians without a trial). Shortly after that, the Geneva Conventions were written.
To: Michael81Dus
Read Stevenson's the "Man Called Intrepid" there is a very pathetic photograph in the middle of the book of a French resistance fighter (women) sitting in the courtyard of Gestapo headquarters in Paris.
She is nude covering her breasts minutes before she was shot.
She was a sacrifice agent sent on a suicide mission in order to uncover a traitor. She was captured, starved, tortured and raped. She didn't give up any information.
That's Grit.
People who resist out of uniform may be heroes. It depends who's side you're on
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