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Originally posted by crockett
I really don't mind the death penalty and all... but tipically when the US has gone to war... we tipically don't execute the soldiers of the losing side after the war is over...
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Not sure you're right on that. Here are some people who'd be hard to convince, if we hadn't executed them after WWII:
"In 1946, the supreme commander of the American forces in Germany named the Landsberg prison as 'War Criminal Prison Nr. 1.' The prison housed 110 persons convicted during the Nuremberg trials, 1416 war criminals from the Dachau trials, and 18 from the Shanghai trials.
"As early as December 1945, the first prisoners were sent to the Landsberg prison. They were the war criminals sentenced to death at the Dachau trials for 'crimes against humanity'.
"Until 1951, there were 284 executions of war criminals at the Landsberg prison...." (
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