Another 'old' topic
But one which interests me as I have benn reading a lot recently about the Malmedy Massacre. Whatever the initial circumstances, post-mortem results showed that around thirty of the US dead had been shot through the head ( 'finished off' ) at point-blank range. Yes, it was a massacre.
But I thought that that scene in SPR was valuable for modern audiences - I felt like cheering, too, and then felt ashamed. By 1944, the war was very brutal indeed, and the thought of teenagers with MG42s . . . Impossible to judge the actions of individuals in war by peacetime standards.
What really decided me about Malmedy was David Irving's 'apology' in his book 'The War Between The Generals'. In his version , there was a 'firefight' at Baugnez, after which the American dead were laid out in rows.
Some firefight ! 84 US killed, and not one of Peiper's men even wounded there. Oh, come ON . . . !

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