Source? He executed a squad leader for disobeying a direct order in combat as a good officer should. The squad leader was attempting to take his squad into a friendly arty barrage, repeatedly disregarding LT Speirs order to hold. As far as I know the rest has never been anything more then allegation and rumor.
Only 7% of germans were nazi party members, the rest were just following orders right? The truth is that the other branches of the german military murdered more than the SS did.
Don't be dumb enough to buy into the apologists propaganda.
An interview with Private Art DiMarzio, published on YouTube in 2012, describes how he, Speirs and a sergeant from his Dog Company platoon became lost and disorientated as a result of being landed away from their intended drop zone – before encountering three German soldiers. With no means of managing the prisoners and needing to reach their military objective, Speirs gave the order to shoot them. According to fellow Dog Company member, Art DiMarzio, each man shot a prisoner.5 A few hours later four more German soldiers were encountered and this time Speirs shot all of them himself.
Winters assessed Speirs as being one of the finest combat officers in the battalion. He wrote in his memoirs that Speirs had worked hard to earn a reputation as a killer and had often killed for shock value.[7] Winters stated that Speirs was alleged on one occasion to have killed six German prisoners of war with a Thompson submachinegun and that the battalion leadership must have been aware of the allegations, but chose to ignore the charges because of the pressing need to retain qualified combat leaders. Winters concluded that in today's army, Speirs would have been court-martialed and charged with atrocities, but at the time officers like Speirs were too valuable because they were not afraid to engage the enemy.
I only use those accounts because they are the ones people most know about. But this was far from an uncommon occurrence.
If you remember the sequence in Band of Brothers where Winters assigns a soldier to bring prisoners back to the rear but only lets him take one bullet to guard them with. This is because that soldier was known for not bringing prisoners to the rear and shooting them en route instead.
Just because we were "the good guys" does not mean our guys didnt do terrible things
I've argued in favor of total war such as is described here for our current problems. But usually I am met with "We dont do that"
Well...yea we do.
Im not dumb enough to buy into the apologists propaganda any more then I am dumb enough to buy into our own
