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To: Telepathic Intruder

I think the courageous, manly Arab terrorists are already arranging rows of baby carriages and elderly people using walkers as their human shields.

WW2classroom.com
Students were put on the front lines of the battle of Okinawa, where Japanese combatants used civilians as human shields to slow the American onslaught.
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World War II
Wehrmacht and later SS forces extensively used Polish civilians as human shields during Warsaw Uprising when attacking the insurgents’ positions.[19][20] In the Wola massacre in Poland on 7 August 1944, the Nazis forced civilian women onto the armored vehicles as human shields to enhance their effectiveness.[citation needed]

In Belgium in May 1940, at least 86 civilians were killed by the German Wehrmacht in an event known as the Vinkt Massacre, when the Germans took 140 civilians and used them as shields to cross a bridge while under fire by Belgian forces. As the battle progressed, German soldiers began executing hostages.

During the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Manila, Japanese soldiers often used civilians as human shields against American troops.
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15 posted on 10/27/2023 3:33:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: frank ballenger

Yes and both Germans and Japanese imbedded their military installations within civilian populations. That’s why bombing them created so many civilian casualties.


17 posted on 10/27/2023 3:40:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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