On 2015-01-16 13:07:40 +0000, Harry R Jumpjet said:
> I came across a reference to this bureau some time ago, and discovered
> that the bureau was set up under the Geneva Convention. It followed a
> precedent estabished in WW One. There is a mechanism whereby enemy
> forces can complan that their opponents are not "playing the game",
> and can make a compant. This is done through a neutral power , and a
> good example of this is the complaint made in WW One against Germany
> regarding the use of the "saw-back" bayonet by Imperial German trops.
> The Bayonet was sunsequently withdrawn from use. In the Second EWorld
> War, complaints usually referred to atrocities being committed against
> enemy combatants or prisoners of war. I hope that this post does not
> result in a gegeral argument about German and/or Russian behaviour in
> the war - I am simply makig the point that the bureau existed, and
> investigated allegations of war crimes committed by and against
> members of the German armed forces.
>
> There is an interesting book - see the following internet references:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wehrmacht_War_Crimes_Bureau,_1939-1945
>
> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7362616
>
>
> Finally, was it not Churchill who said that if you have to kill a man,
> it costs nothing to be polite?
I have one of these bayonets. I was given to understand that they were
issued to "pioneer" troops only for cutting down trees and similar uses.
Brian Ehni
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