Anyone responsible for this should be arrested and charged for war crimes. Even if they're in their 90s. They do it to Germans we should do it to the French too. All frogs involved in this treachery should be hanged.
Well maybe shooting up an entire village of civilians as retaliation against acts committed by the resistance wasn't the best idea to win hearts and minds after all...
>“We knew we were not supposed to kill prisoners, even though we were not subject to the Geneva Convention, because the Germans did not consider us soldiers.” ... >Gildea explains that, during those weeks, many resistance groups that had been hiding out in the forests and mountains of France emerged to attack the German occupiers. The subsequent repression, the historian adds, was brutal. For every German soldier killed, if the occupying authorities were unable to arrest a suspect, they unleashed their vengeance against the population. The context of Nazi reprisals is fundamental to understanding the executions carried out at Meymac. Two days earlier, the Das Reich division of the Waffen-SS had committed one of the worst civilian massacres of the war, killing 642 people at Oradour-sur-Glane, just over an hour’s drive from Meymac. The Nazis had also just hanged 99 men in the streets of Tulle.
This is how society should operate.
What do you mean? That shooting up the entire village was a great idea in the first place or that the retaliatory shooting was just as much of a great idea?
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