However I will say Panzer is wrong about WW2. The documented cases of Nazi's that were shot after they surrendered was done as an act of relation because Nazi shootings of GI's.

Wrong.. those are not the killings I am talking about. Much has come to light about exactly how Germans were treated by the allies, including starvation, executions and such.

Ike hated Germans, as evidenced by this order:

“…Under no circumstances may food supplies be assembled among the local inhabitants in order to deliver them to prisoners of war. Those who violate this command and nevertheless try to circumvent this blockade to allow something to come to the prisoners place themselves in danger of being shot…”(

Also see this:

"Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million [German] men, most of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."

-- Col. Ernest F. Fisher, PhD Lt.
101 st Airborne Division, Senior Historian, United States Army


As for the Japanese - many wounded were shot for fear of having hidden grenades or because the US soldiers wanted their fillings. This is well documented Redleg.

Let me stress there was nothing wrong with any of that... Thats the price of war.


Sorry, but "Well, we have done much worse before" is simply not a valid defence.

A valid defence for whom? The United States does not need its actions approved by you or any of your comrades.