The German execution of POW's was systematic and widespread, it involved the organized massacred of millions of Polish, Soviet, Italian, American, British, French, Norwegian, etc POW's.
Err and you base this on what exactly?
That most of the victims were Slavs, Poles, and Italians does not diminish their atrocities.
Now wait a minute...First you say they killed millions of Polish, Soviet, Italian, American, British, French and so on... and then you say most were Slavs, Poles and Italians? Serious lack of consistency there.
Fact is many of the mass executions of Poles was in fact the Russians, and many of the executions of the slavs was in fact the KGB shooting retreating troops.
Now I am not saying that the Germans did not execute POWs because they did that everywhere, but you forget how the allied POWs, especially the Russians were used. ... as slave labour. So mass executions was in direct conflict with how they were in reality used in many cases. But again that is not saying that there was no mass executions.
Point is, the Germans were bad and since we won the war, then we might as well push a few of our dirty deeds on them since people will believe that because the Germans were bad.
Moreover it should be clear that when referring to the Allies and war crimes few include the Soviet Union which beyond Katyn was obviously a purveyor of atrocities.
Oh I have never denied (nor commented) on which allies committed the mass killing of POWs..Fact is the Russians were bastards when it came to that, but the western Allies also did it and even trying to deny it is pathetic. The Russians had many death marches of German troops and out of the 200k German troops that surrendered at Stalingrad something like under 10k made it back to Germany after the war..
There is a fantastic and fundamental difference between the bombardment of a city for the purposes of a war aim, even if that aim is the strategic reduction of the city, and carting those people off into the woods with the deliberate intent of killing every single last one of them. The Holocaust, the butchery in Russia, the annihilation of Polish, Czech, Greek, Hungarian communities, and so much more is incomparable to the Allied strategic bombing campaign.
Why on earth are you deliberately trying to mix the fire bombing of cities and civilian together with the holocaust? Trying to play the "guilt" card or something? Every time I point out an allied war crime you throw the guilt card... yea but the Germans had death camps... so what? Does that some how excuse our war crimes? Does that excuse that we killed 40+k civilians in one night of firebombing a city with no military value in it?
You also have a peculiar inability to distinguish between the objectives of the Axis and the Allied powers.
LOL they had the exact same objective.. to win the war by any means possible.
The entire reason people give the US and the UK a lenient pass on the German strategic bombing campaign is because the Allies were battling to roll back totalitarian and genocidal fascism from the continent. Every day the regime existed was a crime against the millions suffering under their yolk.
err no. Most people including many in government did not know of the "genocidal" aspect of Nazi Germany until the last months of the war. Using that as an excuse for why we hated the Germans and went to war.. is pathetic.
Now the Allies were battling the Germans because they were threatening the dominance of the allies on the global scale... pure and simple. That it was packaged in as being democracy against fascism is often a smoke screen on the fact that quite a number of the policies of Nazi Germany actually came from the US and UK, and that there was great sympathy with Nazi Germany in the US and parts of the UK in the 1930s.
Germany and eugenics are often linked because of Nazi Germany, and yet many forget that the whole idea and principles actually came from the US and UK and were actively practiced there also even after the freaking war.
You must be trolling. The shooting of a POW at Dachau by America troops, does not equate to the mountain of atrocities committed by the Third Reich.
Who ever said that it was? I am saying that the shooting of a POW on the beaches of Normany or at Dachau is a war crime, just as if the Germans did it. The scale does not matter.
No the Allies did not. This is factually untrue. The Allies (the Western Powers) did not engage in the mass execution of Nazi, Italian, or Japanese POW's.
Depends on the definition of "mass". Shooting 10 POWs is that mass or do you need to go over 20? How about 3 or 4 at a time every 30 minutes across a battlefield for 8 hours or more? Is that mass?
And do you have any examples where thousands of POWs were executed by any side... other than the Russian example that was blamed on the Nazies?
Ever heard of the Chenogne massacre? And the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre by US troops?
The Allies did not engage in the mass looting of art and cultural artifacts.
Actually... you need to be careful here. The Russians did engage in organized mass looting of art and cultural artifacts from Germany during and after the war. On the Western front there was no official policy to do this, but there were many rumors of allied troops looting their way across Western Europe. Artifacts have turned up in the US decades after the war... artifacts that were originally taken by the Nazis and disappeared after the war.
The Allies did not engage in the mass slaughter of entire communities with the purpose of extinguishing entire peoples from the continent.
The holocaust thing again... we get it, the Nazis were bad as they committed genocide.
This is relativism gone wild and it is why liberalism has been so unfortunately but savagely maligned. This is lunacy.
The only lunacy here is your attempt to justify war crimes by saying the other side did far worse, hence our sides war crimes were some how justified and have to be accepted.
No. No one thinks that except for Nazi sympathizers and simpletons. You spit on the graves of untold millions when you make that comparison. It is despicable.
Did you really go there? Loosing an argument and you go there to destroy the debate... congrats. Oh and yes you have been reported.
Don't do this, Pete.
