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R.I.P. Mein Kamerad

couldn't just execute them like a soldier, by firing squad. no. they had the time on their hands to torture these men. animals.

I've also seen picture of German Pows eaten by Russians .Russians never cared Germans were ordered to attack them (Geshtapo would kill those who deserted the lines)/The Allied shelled 70 000 000 tons of Bombs and G died in frozen lands of Russia more...

I've also seen picture of German Pows eaten by Russians .Russians never cared Germans were ordered to attack them (Geshtapo would kill those who deserted the lines)/The Allied shelled 70 000 000 tons of Bombs and G died in frozen lands of Russia more than 2 million died in Russia and in Allied hands later.If only u read the Verssaile treaty or the ordeal of Woodrow Wilson u will commiserate for these ill fated people.(what happened them later was a catastrophe)

The Russians might have got the upper hand with the Germans, but they had to live in Stalin's Russia afterward s.Nor sure it was worth the effort.

Once again this proves that war itself is a crime

the worst part for these men was the fact that they were never properly identified.

Terrible...

It is mostly them being in SS uniform that triggered such brutality.

"Kill a German" by Ehrenburg is not an order, but a pamflet line from a news paper article dating to end of 1942, the heith of the Stalingrad...

Terrible...

It is mostly them being in SS uniform that triggered such brutality.

"Kill a German" by Ehrenburg is not an order, but a pamflet line from a news paper article dating to end of 1942, the heith of the Stalingrad battle.

There has never been any orders or official policies in RKKA to elliminate the POW.
Unofficially there were many cases, obviously.

A logical, although deplorable, result of the German atrocities against the Russians. By the time this events took place the Warrior's Code that had pretty much been in place was irrevocably broken by the bestiality of the war unleashed by a few...

A logical, although deplorable, result of the German atrocities against the Russians. By the time this events took place the Warrior's Code that had pretty much been in place was irrevocably broken by the bestiality of the war unleashed by a few selected units that were not soldiers but butchers. A sad result of this were massacres and crimes not fit to be included in "The Art of War". Sad.

Interesting. Thank you, FTG!

Well, this incident (probably) occured around April 18, 1944. The division arrived in Galicia two weeks before and it was its very first combat deployment. The chance of forwent provocations is low (but not totally excluded of course), at least I don't ...

Well, this incident (probably) occured around April 18, 1944. The division arrived in Galicia two weeks before and it was its very first combat deployment. The chance of forwent provocations is low (but not totally excluded of course), at least I don't know about any. Probably the fact that they belonged to the Waffen-SS -the political soldiers of the ns-system respectively "Hitler's praetorians"- sealed these soldiers' fate. However atrocities have been committed against any kind of armed branch. I don't know -and kind of doubt- if there has been an official order by the soviet leadership to execute Waffen-SS soldiers rightaway aside from Ehrenburg's "Kill the german" demands. After all these must be called "excess deeds". The commissar order -given by Hitler on June 6th 1941- was harshly critisized by the german army's leadership (don't know about the Waffen-SS specifically) and therefore abrogated in May 1942. Many times the order was followed, many times it was simply ignored. The sources say it depended on the particular CO.

Obviously an ugly deed. Was there any provocation for it? I mean, had Hohenstaufen (or other SS units) been involved in some nasty action in the area in the time before this occurred? I am not sure if it was ever an official order in the Red Army (as...

Obviously an ugly deed. Was there any provocation for it? I mean, had Hohenstaufen (or other SS units) been involved in some nasty action in the area in the time before this occurred? I am not sure if it was ever an official order in the Red Army (as was in the German Army re: Commissars), but SS had tough odds for survival if captured. But *this* goes so far beyond simple execution that you have to wonder if there wasn't a "trigger" for it.... Any indication of what Red Army unit (I assume non-Partisan) took the PoWs -- I mean, I know when entering Berlin, the front-line Soviet troops had a much better record of behavior than the "second-line" troops that followed. FTG, I'm hazy on the subject of Commisar/SS PoWs. Didn't Germany rescind the order, at least officially? Was the Soviet response, in regards to SS PoWs, an official order, and if so, was it ever rescinded? And if either side rescinded the order, did the practices at the front actually change?