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Originally posted by lookout123
are the Geneva principles you are referring to the ones that were agreed upon in 1949?
and could you please define "butchered"?
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The wording "Geneva principles" was a reference to laws that would exist in the future. But the point is both sides were fighting and killing per the principles we were later to define in Geneva.
As for butchered: there is a scene in Saving Private Ryan were German coastal defenders are butchered. Killed after they had surrendered. Americans do not have a monopoly on only being the good guys. That scene is based on many reported events that did occur on D-Day and after. Band of Brothers also makes reference to butchering.
It happens. It was done on both sides. But that should not detract from a larger and more important perspective. Those soldiers on both sides were victims of the time. They did as they were expected to due. And for the most part they did just what the Geneva Conventions would define as legal. Those soldiers on both sides deserve the respect due on D-Day. They more than us suffered the greatests losses by only doing their duty.