Was it a summer camp?
I thought nazis were supposed to be animals, but they treated prisoners like kings. What gives?
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I thought nazis were supposed to be animals, but they treated prisoners like kings. What gives?
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The Nazis were the worst human beings on earth but to their credit they obey the rules of war especially regarding prisoners
Now go learn your history you DOPE
The Nazis were the worst human beings on earth but to their credit they obey the rules of war especially regarding prisoners
The film somewhat romanticises their situation but I wouldn't say shooting dead Ives when he goes wire-happy is treating them like kings. With Western prisoners the Nazis generally made some attempt to adhere to the Geneva convention. The USSR was not a signatory and after Barbarossa the Nazis, who in 1941 expected swift victory, often simply left large numbers of the Soviet POWs to starve to death. Sometimes they tried to identify Jews among them, often shooting any identified Jews on the spot.
In 1942 treatment of Soviet POWs somewhat improved - the war was lasting longer than expected, POWs were potential slave labour and so had this much value, and lastly the Nazis hoped to get Soviet POWs to join the Vlasov movement or various collaborationist militias. Even so, they were almost invariably treated worse than Western POWs - the Nazi belief that Slavs were inferior never went away.
"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."
the Nazis, who in 1941 expected swift victory, often simply left large numbers of the Soviet POWs to starve to death. Sometimes they tried to identify Jews among them, often shooting any identified Jews on the spot.
Yes. It was also the army, not the SS or the Nazi Party, that ran a military brothel system in occupied Europe, often using female slave labourers. It was not unknown for young women or girls, especially in Poland and the occupied USSR but sometimes also Western Europe, to simply be kidnapped off the street to be used as prostitutes by the German army. It resembled the Japanese "comfort women" system, but attempts to bring up the subject at Nuremberg failed and there has often been an attempt to whitewash the Wehrmacht as opposed to the SS.
In France, Gestapo interrogators of Resistance suspects sometimes threatened to have the wives, daughters or sisters of suspects removed to German army brothels. It was a bit of psychological pressure used on suspects who did not talk under torture.
The SS have been described as the "alibi of a nation" - the SS record was horrendous but blaming it has sometimes served to cover up the role other institutions played, such as the German army.
"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."
Try to.escape with armed guards around and you'll be shot.
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