Are there credible reports of allied war crimes in WW2?

Question

Shooting POWs and such?

Answer 1

of course there are credible reports of allied war crimes

this was a very big war involving millions of allied soldiers

soldiers are people

in a group of millions of people, some are criminals and some will commit crimes

there is little doubt that if you use the generally accepted current definitions of "war crimes", that the allies in World War II, especially if you exclude the russians, were exceptionally UNcriminal, but certainly not perfect

Answer 2

There were approximately 17 million allied soldiers in uniform during the second world war (I may be mistaken, that might just be the US). It's incomprehensible to me to think that were no instances of war crimes.

But, to ask did allied soldiers take large numbers of POWs and line them up and shoot them? No, the allies didn't do that. Well, the Soviets did that. The Soviets probably committed more war crimes than the Germans.

Answer 3

Not only are there credible reports there is proof. Russia was the biggest offender. Starting with the Masscare of polish officers at Katyn Wood in 1939 The russians would prove just as brutal as the nazis. Russian troops leveled villages, raped girls as young as 5 and dealt with civilians by running tanks back and forth through the columns. The British and Americans did commit atrocities but on a vastly smaller scale.

Answer 4

I'm afraid so, not as many as Axis war crimes but, since there were literally millions of soldiers on the Allied side, it's hardly surprising that there were a few bad apples.

By the way - ignore anything coming from the ihr webside recommended above. ihr stands for Institute for Historical Review, the journal of the Holocaust denying scum of America.

The Coalition for Human Dignity describes the Institute for Historical Review as "... a pseudo-academic think tank dedicated to disproving that the Holocaust happened. Founded by the dean of American anti-Semites Willis Carto, IHR functions as a clearinghouse for Holocaust denial and a meeting ground for anti-Semitic scholars in the United States."

Answer 5

the nuremburg trials are all about war crimes and convictions of nazis for concentration camps etc.
but also in the far eastern theatre the japanese invaded china in the mid 1930's and occupied it until 1945 during which time the rape of bejieng(i believe that is the name) occured. Japan committed terrible crimes there and china still till this day will not reveal the numbers of people murdered and raped although it is believed to be in the millions.
those are probably the two best examples during the war

after world war two the universal declaration of human rights was formed with the idea of preventing these atrocities....hasnt worked

Answer 6

How about civilians? The Dresden bombing was a terrorist act. Allies knew there were NO military targets there

Read the review of The War Between The Generals / Overlord: D-Day And The Battle For Normandy
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v05/v05p397_Lutton.html

Many British and American units shot SS prisoners routinely, which explained, as much as the fanatical resistance that the SS so often offered, why so few appeared in POW cages."

Answer 7

Many people consider the bombing of Dresden to be a war crime and also the use of atomic bombs against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 8

even as Hitler ordered his Generals to be completely ruthless of their treatment of POWs his smart rationalization grow to be that history might want to be written by technique of the victor. In different words in uncomplicated words the defeated might want to respond to for his or her crimes, and Hitler by no skill considered something yet Nazi victory.

Answer 9

at the italian port of BARI a ship load of poison gas blew up in the harbor causing "a cloud of death" in the bay there!!!this was "covered -up"....because the allies were supposedlly committed not to use weapons of this type!!!!there were many deaths in the surrounding harbor and fish stocks went way down and were toxified!!!

Answer 10

Simple answer

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