| I do remember reading about the SS killing Germans in the book "Citizen Soldiers" by Stephen Ambrose. Basically there was a regular German army unit and an SS unit in the same town. The regular officer realized his presence would only bring shells onto the civilians so he ordered a retreat. The SS guys didn't pull out but the German civilians didn't know. So they put out white sheets to signal surrender. By the time the Americans showed up, the town's trees had bodies suspended off them. |