The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Top Ten Allied War Crimes-- Part 3

5.  CHINESE WAR CRIMES--    Against captured Japanese soldiers.

4.  RHEINWIESENLAGER--  Prisoner of War Temporary Enclosure.  These were 19 U.S.-built war camps to hold Germans during the occupation of that country.  Inmates suffered from starvation, exposure and dehydration.  Up to 10,000 died.

3.  OPERATION OVERLORD MASSACRE--  After D-Day led to unknown number of deaths.  Reports that captured German soldiers used as shields and to clear mine fields.

2.  NUCLEAR WEAPONS

1.  PRUSSIAN RAPE--  The Soviet Army carried this out against women and children.  As many as 240,000 deaths.  (In addition, there were around 10,000 rapes accused against U.S. military and another 1,500 against the French.)

For more information and pictures, go to the site.

So, Not Just the Axis.  --GreGen

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