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[Boco]

If you search for crucified canadian, you'll find links suggesting it was a propaganda hoax.

One link from the Liddell Hart archives:

LIDDELL: 15/2/15-16 Papers dated 1931-1969 on historical and literary interpretations of World War One, 1914-1967


LIDDELL: 15/2/15 1931-1969

Papers relating to methods and styles of writing World War One history, particularly influence of contemporary propaganda and misinformation; problems of evidence and conflicting accounts; generalisation and lack of accuracy...; examples of British anti-German propaganda and atrocity stories notably the 'mutilated nurse', the 'crucified Canadian' and the 'Committee for the increase of the population'; ...

From Silent Battle: Canadian Prisoners of War in Germany, 1914-1919

Canada's most famous prisoner of the First World War, writes Desmond Morton in Silent Battle, was the crucified soldier depicted in Derwent Wood's sculpture Canada's Golgotha. The bronze frieze was a great piece of showmanship, but when the tale of a Canadian soldier crucified on a barn door by his German captors was proven to be baseless, the work fell from favour and was eventually consigned to storage by the National Gallery.

Still I'd hesitate surrendering to Canadians if I were a German in the Great War.

[POTUS]

Originally posted by Boco
If you search for crucified canadian, you'll find links suggesting it was a propaganda hoax.

One link from the Liddell Hart archives:

From Silent Battle: Canadian Prisoners of War in Germany, 1914-1919

Still I'd hesitate surrendering to Canadians if I were a German in the Great War.

It doesn't matter whether it was true or not, if the Canadians believed it.

[Case]

Originally posted by Boco
Still I'd hesitate surrendering to Canadians if I were a German in the Great War.

...or if you were in the SS in WW2: after the SS killed a number of Canadian POWs on D-Day, the Canadians almost never accepted the surrender of members of the SS (come to think of it, I don't think anybody took SS prisoners).
Similarly, Australian infantrymen weren't inclined to take any Japanese POWs after the butchered bodies of Australian POWs were found on the Kokoda Trail.

[Palaiologos]

Okay, i knew about the "mutilated nurse" and just learnt of the "Crusified Canadian", but what in the hell was the "Comitee for the increase of the population"?

Generally all such stories are bollocks. There is this story in Greece of the sergeant that wrapped himself with the Greek flag and jumped off the Acropolis when the Germans approached. Totally uncorfimed but sadly quite acceptable by the press and "self proclaimed patriots".

As for the SS while i think it was only human(...) to offer no mercy to their men if captured, i can not ethically accept the execution of POWs from that Hitlerjungen division(was it the tenth?) that fought in Normandy. I've read in a magazine that British troops enraged by the tenacious defence those 16-17 year olds had offered took no prisoners.

Mmmm....i wonder if the yanks were responsible for any atrocities during the war....

[Case]

Originally posted by Palaiologos
Mmmm....i wonder if the yanks were responsible for any atrocities during the war....

Of course they were. US Marines didn't take Japanese prisoners for the same reasons that the Australians didn't take them, and there were various incidents in Europe.

However, when it comes to prisoner-killing, nothing has ever been more horrific then the Eastern Front of WW2. The Germans deliberatly killed over 3 million Soviet POWs and the Soviets returned the favour by killing about 2 million German POWs.

[Sarsstock]

When it comes to atrocities in war, no nation can say their hands are clean.

[Palaiologos]

Case i think that 2.000.000 German POWS executed sound awfully a lot for a front that cost the Germans 1.800.000 killed.

I suppose you count in the ones that perished in Siberia later, but still the numbers just don't add up.

Can you provide more info please?

And as for the atrocities in war i suppose they are simply "part of the game".

[Boco]

Umm, I'm a neophyte with the term, but does this last comment fall under the definition of 'troll'?

How's it going, Curt?

[fairline]

Originally posted by GePap
Any F17's or Whippets in your inventory Fairline?

Here you go GePap:

EDIT: see below

[Case]

Originally posted by Palaiologos
I suppose you count in the ones that perished in Siberia later, but still the numbers just don't add up.

Can you provide more info please?

From memory, I got the figure from Christopher Duffy's Red Storm on the Reich. It strikes me as being rather high as well, but it's certainly not completly unbelievable - a very large chunk of the German Army wasn't released until the late 1940s/early 1950s.

[Boco]

Just how fast was this speedster?

[fairline]

Originally posted by Boco
Just how fast was this speedster?

Which speedster?

Pixel Obsession Syndrome (copyright BOCO) has taken hold. I had to change 6 of them on the Whippet:

[curtsibling]

Fairline!
Nice Whippet!

OK, been working on that 3D stuff, but I am about to make the rules and apply some changes to the map...

The Fokker DVII looks the business and fits the unit look perfectly!

More to come!

Here's the units at the moment!

[Palaiologos]

Why two ANZAC troopers?

[curtsibling]

Only one Oz-trooper, the other is a Canadian!