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Related: About this forumSteve Domitrovich, Last Survivor Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge WWII
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Steve Domitrovich, age 90, last survivor of the Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium. (2014). In a field in Belgium, 84 American POWs were massacred by German Waffen SS troops.
SD Story & obituary, Jan. 14, 2017. https://www.timesonline.com/c1934608-df53-11e6-b72b-c7e4c1fced32.html
Read More, Malmedy Massacre, https://democraticunderground.com/1016280114
captain queeg
(10,188 posts)It had the opposite effect when the rumors about the massacre spread. Soldiers figured they'd better fight to the death than surrender. I don't think this massacre was typical on the western front, but these guys ran into the SS.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)GopherGal
(2,008 posts)so there was all sorts of brutal stuff going on with prisoners there.
[link:https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-USSR-decide-not-to-sign-the-Geneva-convention|]
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)gladium et scutum
(806 posts)is the requirement to treat POWs of a non-signatory nation (such as the USSR) in the same manner as you would treat the POWs of a nation that signed the Convention.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)considering age and all he had been through in the war. And his brothers were likely gone.
yonder
(9,664 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)went, in his 90s, Korean War Veteran, Purple Heart, Silver Star. Became a cardiologist in Detroit.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)The WWII heroes are passing and the remaining Korean War heroes are fewer in number. Heroes of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. are with us and should not be forgotten. So long as men and woman are prepared to risk all for the country, there will be heroes in our midst.