Thank you.My very thoughts.
Whilst I whole heartedly dissagree to the murder of helpless people. Before we condem the German pilot outright for his actions, maybe we should think about what his motives might have been ?. Perhaps the German pilot had a reason for shooting the guys who were escaping their damaged aircraft ?.
We all like to think that we would never do anything like that ourselves, but what if members of your family had recently been killed by bombs dropped from enemy bombers ?, would you still be able to maintain to your morals, or stick to the Geneva convention for that matter ????.
On the other hand he may just have been a cold blooded murderer, but we will probably never know.
This kind of thing happened many times in WW2 “on both sides”, surrendering soldiers have been shot whilst carrying a white flag & with their arms held high, submariners & sailors whose vessels had been sunk, have been shot whilst in the sea, etc etc. Sometimes it was done in the heat of battle when the blood lust was at its highest, other times, in pure cold blooded murder.
Bob T.
They’re helpless on their chutes not as helpless as those on the receiving end of a stick of 500lb bombs maybe.Why should someone who has maybe dropped a large amount of high explosives on helpless civilians expect to be treated fairly? Wars a nasty business and the longer WW11 went on the nastier it got.Wars all about killing the enemy after all.Along similar lines any one heard of the Russelshim incident? David.
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