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
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.
Showing posts with label Allied War Crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allied War Crimes. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2015
Top Ten Allied War Crimes of World War II-- Part 2
8. THE LONDON CAGE-- Kensington Palace Gardens in London. A set of cells and rooms in which Schutzstaffel and Getaspo were tortured.
7. KOCEVSKI TOG MASSACRE-- The murder of POWs and Non-Combatants in May 1945 by Allied Yugoslav partisans. Up to 12,000 thrown into pits and caves and sealed by explosions.
6. DACHAU MASSACRE-- When concentration camp was liberated and with the sight of thousands of decomposing bodies, U.S. soldiers began summarily executing unarmed SS guards. Plus, the inmates were reported to have beaten to death as many as 50 of them.
--GreGen
7. KOCEVSKI TOG MASSACRE-- The murder of POWs and Non-Combatants in May 1945 by Allied Yugoslav partisans. Up to 12,000 thrown into pits and caves and sealed by explosions.
6. DACHAU MASSACRE-- When concentration camp was liberated and with the sight of thousands of decomposing bodies, U.S. soldiers began summarily executing unarmed SS guards. Plus, the inmates were reported to have beaten to death as many as 50 of them.
--GreGen
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Top Ten Allied War Crimes of World War II-- Part 1
From the Dec. 14, 2012, Listverse.
10. Civilian Air Raids
9. OPERATION TEARDROP-- Intelligence was received that a fleet of German U-boats with V-1 Flying Bombs was on its way to the east coast of America. The United States and Canada sent out an anti-sub task force with four aircraft carriers and 42 destroyers.
In one month,this force sank 5 German subs and captured on other one. They lost one destroyer.
Five crew members of the U-546 were brutally interrogated and one officer committed suicide.
It was later found that the fear of the V-1s was unfounded.
--GreGen
10. Civilian Air Raids
9. OPERATION TEARDROP-- Intelligence was received that a fleet of German U-boats with V-1 Flying Bombs was on its way to the east coast of America. The United States and Canada sent out an anti-sub task force with four aircraft carriers and 42 destroyers.
In one month,this force sank 5 German subs and captured on other one. They lost one destroyer.
Five crew members of the U-546 were brutally interrogated and one officer committed suicide.
It was later found that the fear of the V-1s was unfounded.
--GreGen
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