I wondered "just exactly what is a "dum-dum" bullet?".
The link below appears to air an impartial and objective discussion on
the topic.
http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html
The bottom line (notwithstanding the fact that the US government has
willy-nilly made rulings which contravene convention as it sees fit
based on perceived expedience) it seems, is that there is no clear
universally accepted definition of what a dum-dum bullet is. This is
certainly true for the past. Maybe into the future some universal
definition will emerge.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:09:15 -0500, Erinnerungen <ugh@bingbam.com>
wrote:
>German soldiers berate newly captured soviet POWs. German troops in
>the east were especially irate about atrocities committed against
>captured and wounded German troops. Another thing that outraged German
>(combat) troops was the use of explosive rounds (dum dum bullets)by
>(some) soviet soldiers. These rounds caused terrible wounds or death
>to whoever happened to be unfortunate enough to be hit by one.
>What the German army and SS was doing to captured prisoners of war
>make scenes such as this especially hypocritical considereing that
>Nazi Germany engaged in deliberately genocidal policies towards Soviet
>Union prisoners of war resulting in millions of deaths of Russian POWs
>that the German Army was committed to care for by the Geneva
>Convention.
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