[Eva]

I have to add, that some of the research that I did on the Malmedy attack, did support her conclusions on this incedent, though. The soldiers were simply young, rank and file members of a tank division who were given orders to fire on enemy soldiers in the path of their forward movement. The POW group was decimated before they could take cover or escape. A unit of SS then searched the scene, killing survivors and pursing the few who briefly escaped. The soldiers that McCarthy defended were not the SS. (This came from an Army Mortuary site) By today's standards, a death sentece for rank and file tank operators would be very extreme.

[DPB101]

Familiar with Patton's comments on the SS? Got him into a lot of trouble. He said, initially, the SS were special son's of bitches but, as the war progressed, Germany ran out of special sons of bitches and put anyone in there. Being in the SS at the end of the was, he said, was no different than being in the Democratic Party.

He did want to get the top SS people but wasn't interested in trying those drafted into SS units.