horseshoe
Senior Member
In many of the books I have read on WWII, numerous times it was mentioned of not taking prisoners. It makes sense if you are on an attack clearing out buildings one after another, what would you do with the prisoner?. You take him prisoner and now you have to watch him while you're still trying to clear out the next building. Almost all of the times I read of this were from books taken from someone's personal memoirs of the war. Never read about it in a Steven Ambrose or Cornelius Ryan book.I just repped Blackcloud for a coherent and beautiful explanation.
AND...I liked the movie despite flaws. They tried their best to get things right.
AS to US soldiers killing POWs...I'm fairly sure that some unit diaries were not entirely accurate....and I'm also sure that when our guys saw SS troops, they had little sympathy for them so it might be ugly to see the good guys ie US troops act less than within the laws of Land warfare..I'm sure it happened and that the chain of command looked the other way (heck participated) in some form or another. AND the SS troops specifically did 10 bad things for every 1 bad thing we did...
There, is that enough out of both ends of my mouth for the day?
Mark DV