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General Eisenhower, a war criminal?

I'd say anything one dishes out to a bunch of SS troops is OK
Makes me want to play a round of "Call of Duty, WW2" in god mode
 
Please provide evidence that Americans killed 300 SS soldiers at Dachau. The official US Army investigation into the "massacre" found that about 16 German soldiers were executed after they had surrendered. The report recommended the court martial of those involved including the Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Felix Sparks, however the newly appointed military governor of Bavaria - General George Patton - chose to dismiss the charges.

What any of this has to do with Eisenhower I do not know.

It should be pointed out that a large number of guards at the camp were killed prior to surrendering, and a number were also killed by prisoners after liberation. The liberating force - numbering at most 1200 men - could not have been expected to control 32,000 angry prisoners.
 
No but I think that JFK and his administration were because they supported the Diem Coup in South Vietnam and they started the Vietnam war.
 
No, I don't support shooting surrendered troops, however despicable their actions. But since General Eisenhower had nothing to do with the Dachau massacre (MaGZ's, that link you posted? You did read it yourself, didn't you?), it's hard to see how it makes him a war criminal.
 
These were not Waffen-SS men. Hence no soldiers. Hence no Geneva convention.


These murderers got what they deserved.
 
ingoa said:
These were not Waffen-SS men. Hence no soldiers. Hence no Geneva convention.
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Strictly, the convention in force at that time would have required the
SS troopers to have "a fair and regular trial" and then be dealt with in
accordance with the civilian laws of the detaining power.

The reports of the "Dachau massacre" seem to suggest little more than
soldier-boys getting out of hand.
 
MaGZ said:
Do you consider General Eisenhower to have been a war criminal?

He executed 300 SS camp guards after their surrender at Dachau concentration camp.

I say shooting prisoners is a war crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp
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My father was a MP during WW2 and when the US army liberated the Dachau concentration camp a jewish soldier got a tommy gun and shot five of them himself. My father looked on trying to look bored. No one interferred while the jewish guy pumped bullets into these guards. The jewish guy was never charged with anything.
 
"No one interferred while the jewish guy pumped bullets into these guards. The jewish guy was never charged with anything. "

I can dream up a dozen screen plays based on that story and yet Hollywood has run out of ideas.
 
War Criminal is a name usually applied to the loser (if applicable) not the winner (even if applicable).
 
ingoa said:
These were not Waffen-SS men. Hence no soldiers. Hence no Geneva convention.


These murderers got what they deserved.
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Call me crazy if you must, but I oppose butchering people without a fair trial to be a sort of bad thing, Geneva convention or no.

Hell, I oppose the death penalty in all cases. But in cases where the people applying it do so under the rallying crying of "**** fair trials, lets have us a lynching!", even more so.
 
TX50 said:
Strictly, the convention in force at that time would have required the
SS troopers to have "a fair and regular trial" and then be dealt with in
accordance with the civilian laws of the detaining power.

The reports of the "Dachau massacre" seem to suggest little more than
soldier-boys getting out of hand.
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I think the big difference between this incident and many war crimes is emotion. There are hundreds of reports of events that in the cold light of day would be war crimes, but in the heat of battle can be empathised with. And heat of battle is the key. The treatment of those soliders was not systematic plotted and set in stone. It was people reacting to an emotional event well beyond their coping skills

During the battle of Midway, many American pilots picked up by the Japanese were executed and their bodies thrown overboard. Again in the cold light of day this is barbaric. In the light of seeing the pride of their fleet in flames and sinking, the Japanese acted with the sort of emotion many of us would
 
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