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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
This is something I don't believe. I've never heard of the US using torture during WWII.
Mr Mephisto
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We sure as hell committed war crimes during WWII...Read Keegan's "Six Armies in Normandy". He tells of a US paratrooper who machinegunned a bunch of unarmed germans at the breakfast table. The man in question couldn't be prosecuted, because he died shortly afterwards. Or, you could read up on those Germans who got hung in an elevator shaft in the US (at Leavenworth, IIRC). SCOTUS upheld their executions....well AFTER the fact. Or, you could read up on the US ship full of mustard gas that sank in the harbor of Anzio, IIRC... Or you could read up on the firebombing of Dresden, and the deaths of an estimated 250,000 non-military refugees there. They had an actual body count of something like 100,000 dead refugees, but in the city center, the bodies were literally incinerated in the firestorm that developed, so they could not be counted.
Mean shit happens in war. Trying to fight a war by hugging your enemy is a good way to LOSE the war.