Originally Posted by Martin Bull

I think that Meyer's writings ( colourful to read though they most certainly are.... ) should be treated with caution. Tried as a war criminal by the Canadians, his book smacks of ex post facto self-justification.

For sure, there was no love lost between the Canadians in Normandy and the 12th SS - but there seems little doubt that Canadian prisoners were shot out-of-hand at the Abbaye d'Ardenne near Caen.