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Originally Posted by DDLDSDB
In the heat of battle,the spur of the moment,etc. these things happen. To say they were by orders from up high is not feasable.. The Allies however, were famous for such orders from up high. Dresden,Hamburg and so on down the numerous line.
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You can argue that firebombing Tokyo and dropping atomic bombs were also "crimes" committed on orders from "higher up" but in fact those were strategic decisions made by the Allies as were the attack at Pearl Harbor and the bombings of London, Warsaw, and Moscow and are at least "arguable". Executions of prisoners, or orders such as the "Commissar Order"
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...If captured during combat or while offering resistance, [these commissars] must on principle be shot immediately.... As for the others, the following rules shall apply: Even if they are only suspected of resistance, sabotage, or instigation thereto... protection granted to prisoners of war... will not apply to them. After having been segregated they are to be liquidated.
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are very different.