So far it has been pretty good at dealing with some delicate matters.HG
Can I ask what the point of this thread is? It stands a very real risk of turning into an atrocity fest.......
This is true and veterans from all sides have confirmed this, prisoners of war from all sides did not suffer abuse or summary execution at the hands of their captors.Panzer Wittmann
Hope nobody was offended by my reference to the dachau incident. It was merely my intention in the spirit of the original question to point out that axis or allied, from Stalingrad to Normandy, the treatment of POWs was often luck of the draw.
Waffen SS were killed at Dachau but there was no order to do so, likewise on Sicily an American NCO shot POW's and was arrested for it -again no order to do so and for the record he got off with it.
As far as civilians beating up went , look at the film footage shot in Paris and in other European capitals liberated by the Allies - it was a cathartic release as much as anything.
As far as "Other Losses" goes - the deaths of German POW's post war was not policy and was the product of poor information , these deaths and incidents like Dachau have been much used and abused by " revisionist" type historians.