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Originally Posted by B.T.
Isn't this going a little off topic here? What's the point? We were discussing war crimes. And I think, this has little to do with an army being made out of professionals or being a conscript army!
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Originally Posted by B.T.
I am a little annoyed, I have to confess. Everyone trying to blame soldiers of one nationality or another just does not help in discussing the question, if war crimes would be punished or not.
If I was to harsh here, please inform me. I try to be calm, but I'm not certain, if I actually am to harsh.
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No, you're not being harsh. Threads around here do have a tendency to wander off topic (I'm as guilty as anyone of this). Many members have prodigious knowledge of WWII so as soon as that war is mentioned, that's where the thread is bound to go for a while. War crimes do happen on an individual and small scale basis in most wars. Obviously, in the past, there have also been cases of systematic, large scale perpetration of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Germany does tend to get singled out but (in my opinion) the modern German military is a highly honorable institution. Same goes for Japan (but bad feelings still run very, very deep here in Australia over the way the Japanese treated POWs in WWII).