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My father was an MP during WW2. They shot SS officers often.
My father was at Bastogne when the Germans were defeated. Germans liked the American over coats and they sometimes took them off of dead American soldiers and wore them. Sometimes they had blood on them.
If they were captured wearing these coats they were shot. Its against the Geneva convention law to wear the uniform of the enemy and to appearances these Germans were breaking the law.
They were shot upon capture upon capture. Many of these Germans begged for their life saying they were unaware of this law. They said they had families to feed after the war.
None of this helped them. The sentence was death and no mercy.
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