French Resistance fighter breaks silence on executing German prisoners

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1:32p, 5/16/23
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65613900

98 years old and last known survivor of unit.
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2:33p, 5/16/23
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It happened. Partisans vs occupying army is never nice and neat.
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2:53p, 5/16/23
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Atrocities happen in war. You can minimize them, but not eliminate them. Good on this guy for letting go of that burden. Everyone deserves a decent burial, no matter who they were in life. Even Pol Pot.
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3:04p, 5/17/23
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Nahh some should be left for the buzzards they got to eat too.
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5:44p, 5/17/23
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I'm surprised they even held them as prisoners for a little while. I would have expected them to be shot outright.
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7:06p, 5/17/23
Oradour-sur-Glane. Need we say more.
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11:29a, 5/18/23
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The commander of the detachment, whose code name was Hannibal, "cried like a kid when he got the order. But there was discipline in the Resistance," remembered Rveil.

"He asked for volunteers to carry out the order. Every fighter had someone to kill. But there were some of us - and I was one of them - who said we wouldn't take part.

"It was a terribly hot day. We made them dig their own graves. They were killed and we poured quicklime on them. I remember it smelled of blood. We never spoke of it again."
I've got diminished respect for someone who was present for a war crime, refused an order as a conscious objector, but did nothing to stop the killing, who then tells the secret in a self-serving way that diminishes the memory of all of his compatriots.
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In reply to JABQ04 • 10:42a, 5/24/23
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JABQ04 said:
I'm surprised they even held them as prisoners for a little while. I would have expected them to be shot outright.


Battlefield sanitation really helps with the bound and gagged moral dilemma.
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In reply to Rabid Cougar • 4:24p, 5/26/23
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Rabid Cougar said:
It happened. Partisans vs occupying army is never nice and neat.
Same thing on the other side of the world. My class of '50 dad served in the Philippines. Made liaison with some Americans that hid out from the Japanese until Mac Arthur returned. Those dudes had no comprehension of taking prisoners. I guess that happens when you fight a war for two years with the maximum effective range of a machete.
The person that is not willing to fight and die, if need be, for his country has no right to life.

James Earl Rudder '32
January 31, 1945
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