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Historical News Letter
PRISONERS OF WAR MURDERED WITH LAND MINES IN
NORWAY! After the German capitulation in Norway on May 8. 1945 UK
the Services forced 5.000 German prisoners of war to undertake clearance of
land mines. The German POW had to walk arm in arm through mine fields already
cleared of mines. In this way the British hoped to trigger off land mines that
were left by the German POWs after they, the POWs, had cleared areas of land
mines. This act of cruelty lead to killing of 184 German Soldiers and to
injuring of another 252 POWs. All these happened while the Norwegian
Government, they could not and would not charge "The liberator of Norway" with
acts of violating the Laws of War, tacitly looked at the happenings. Even
today the Norwegian Government do not want speak about the atrocities against
the German POWs after the war. They, The Norwegian Government, do not want to
speak of how good Norway was treated by the Germans during the war and how bad
she was treated as British and US soldiers after the war were showing the
country how soldiers "should behave" in a liberated country. The British
Services in Norway were under the command of General Sir Andrew Thorn. According to "Morgenbladet", Norwegian news paper, of
November 28. 1997 the losses of Germans were high above the numbers, 184
killed and 252 wounded, given by the Norwegian Government. Morgenbladet call
this a war crime, war crime that has not been prosecuted. According to the Geneva Convention of 1928 it is illegal to force POWs to undertake dangerous labour. But the honourable Sir Andrew Thorn had neither read nor heard of that Convention as he lead his troops in Norway in 1945. You say of cause the Sir Thorn was trailed for his behaviour. No, he was not!! You can not trail a Liberator for breaking some minor conventions like those of Geneva 1928. Such Convention are only meant to be uphold by Germans not by UK, US nor by former USSR, but the later shall judge the former, The Third Reich or Germany, if the former do not follow the Convention, or if the later find it useful to accuse the Germans for breaking the Convention, in this case the Germans are not allowed to prove their case, they, the Germans, might, to the fear of everybody, be able to prove they were right.
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