My misprint.David Thompson wrote:Penn44 -- You wrote:Where did you get your information that SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Hubert Meyer was a convicted war criminal?Do you believe everything you read from a convicted Nazi war criminal?
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My misprint.David Thompson wrote:Penn44 -- You wrote:Where did you get your information that SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Hubert Meyer was a convicted war criminal?Do you believe everything you read from a convicted Nazi war criminal?
This strafing tangent is off-topic, and I'm getting annoyed at you, Penn44, for unnecessarily personalizing this digression from the subject under discussion. Even if the issue was whether allied pilots deliberately strafed civilians -- which in this thread it isn't -- quibbling over the details of a translated description adds nothing to the discussion, nor does it tend toward a resolution of the issue being discussed. Furthermore, invidious references to "the Nazi Meyer" and "Finnish examples of UFO abductions" fall well below the standards our readers expect of this forum.In this thread, I'd like to stick to a discussion of the alleged "take no prisoners" order. I'm also interested in the quote which started this thread:
Kurt Meyer reported what happened in the handling of the German prisoners of war by the Canadian troops:
"On the 7th of June I was given a notebook taken from the body of a dead Canadian captain. In addition to handwritten orders, the notes stated that 'no prisoners were to be taken'. Some Canadian prisoners were asked to verify these instructions...they confirmed orders that if prisoners impeded the advance, they were not to be taken"
and whether this is something that Kurt Meyer said, and if so, where? Could the Canadian documentary scriptwriter have confused Kurt Meyer with Hubert Meyer? And if so, why was the "no prisoners were to be taken if they might impede the attacking Allied forces" part of the quote omitted?
I'll let Penn44 see it first, just in case he doesn't realize how problematic his behavior has become.David, you can delete this, if you want so...I don't write in this topic anymore.