Vince,
luckily, not all field commanders followed orders or the casualties would have been higher. I have a whole bunch of other books too. Some dealing with the Roosevelt, Churchhill and Stalin relationships during WW2. They are kinda interesting too. I was surprised when I talked to a few Russsians and they still think that the Czar was still the Czar when he and his family were butchered. He wasn't. And although the executioner was a professional photographer, he didn't take one picture of the event. Ah-h-h sometimes history can be so interesting.
Oh... I almost forgot. At the end of WW2, General Eisenhower had a large number of German POW's. So He changed their designation from POW's to Disarmed Fighting Force. This enabled him to ignore the Geneva Convention. So although food and medical supplies were stacked up just outside their fences and in their view, they were not allowed to have them. As a result, some 50,000 German POW's died of starvation and war injuries. Some just committed suicide by jumping into large slit tenches full of 'you know what'. It reminds me of Andersonville during the American civil war.
Big Norm
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