Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01BF3871.CE1F9760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable marc small posted... "Alan, do you know any veterans of the War in Europe? Your neighbor, perhaps, or his father? Ask him about this: in most US units, summary executions of captured SS was not unknown and, in some units, it was = rather common. And this WAS unfair, as the junior SS might well have just been = a fresh-caught draftee without any culpability at all." I can tell you that my father who fought in both the European and = Phillipean campaigns had witnessed multiple "executions" of captured = soldiers, some of whom had surrendered with the hopes of having = courtesies extended to most prisoners of war-- both Wehrmacht and SS. = Such was (and is) war. His stories are neither graphic nor = exhibitionist-- merely, matter of fact. I find them sobering, and thank = God that my children live in a time and country where they have a hope = of never seeing the atrocities like those. Kpeters - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01BF3871.CE1F9760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>marc small posted...<BR>"Alan, do you know any veterans of the = War in=20 Europe? Your neighbor,<BR>perhaps, or his father? Ask him = about=20 this: in most US units, summary<BR>executions of captured SS was = not=20 unknown and, in some units, it was rather<BR>common. And this WAS = unfair,=20 as the junior SS might well have just been a<BR>fresh-caught draftee = without any=20 culpability at all."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can tell you that my father who fought in both the European and=20 Phillipean campaigns had witnessed multiple "executions" of = captured=20 soldiers, some of whom had surrendered with the hopes of having = courtesies=20 extended to most prisoners of war-- both Wehrmacht and SS. = Such was=20 (and is) war. His stories are neither graphic nor exhibitionist-- = merely,=20 matter of fact. I find them sobering, and thank God that my = children live=20 in a time and country where they have a hope of never seeing the = atrocities like=20 those. Kpeters<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01BF3871.CE1F9760--