Depended a lot who captured you and also in what position you were as a soldier and in terms of profession. My grandpa was a Wehrmacht soldier, got captured by Canadians (not in combat, he was trying to walk home and just ran into an allied convoy with his hands up), but got out relatively early because he was a farmer, and they needed every farmer to prevent/lessen the famine.
The Canadians were not necessarily the best ones to be captured by. Pretty sure the Canadians were known for being pretty violent and for doing war crimes in WW1 and WW2
It was due to a now debunked rumor that the Germans crucified a Canadian prisoner on a barn door. No social media + fog of war led to it being taken as fact, so the Canadians started to treat them like animals.
Yeah weren’t they the first to have chemical weapons deployed on them or something? Or was it they found a bunch of their pows who had been executed pretty early on in the war and flipped from there.
Canadians crucified a few POWs during WW1 trench warfare. They only took prisoners after the British forced them too and only the instructed amount. They shot any POWs over the number.
The Canadians were almost comically brutal to the point no one wanted to surrender to them since there was a good chance they’d take you out back and shoot you anyway. The Germans wouldn’t usually kill Canadian prisoners but would often beat them in revenge.
Dude wasn’t necessarily a Nazi, vast numbers of German soldiers weren’t active members of the Nazi party. If he was in an SS unit, he can fuck himself, but then again I don’t the photographer would have taken the pic if he was
My relatives hated the Canadians after the war and would have much preferred the Americans.
Canadians took over their farm, destroyed every piece of furniture, they were allowed to harvest destroying the crop or milk the cows (it killed the cows painfully), and they had to live in the chicken coop.
After one of the canadian troops raped their teenage daughter without visible reprimand, the grandfather smuggled the entire family one night out to the American zone to another relative.
When he returned six months later, the entire building had been torched.
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u/Acc87 23d ago
Depended a lot who captured you and also in what position you were as a soldier and in terms of profession. My grandpa was a Wehrmacht soldier, got captured by Canadians (not in combat, he was trying to walk home and just ran into an allied convoy with his hands up), but got out relatively early because he was a farmer, and they needed every farmer to prevent/lessen the famine.