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Relative_Figure_1715 t1_j9y36gs wrote

Reply to comment by BSN_tg_bgg in An American officer and a French partisan during a street fight - 1944 by ModAgamid313

You mean the Geneva convention signed AFTER the war in 1949 ? 5 years later ? Swing and a miss old bean.

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BSN_tg_bgg t1_j9ymbij wrote

Correct. That would be the fourth Geneva Conventions that would outline treatment of non-uniformed combatants. I was holding them to a higher standard than I should have. The term partisan was thrown a lot during the war and the use of non uniformed combatants was usually met as a sign of underhanded warfare and partisans were usually executed on site. The fourth Geneva Conventions have been troublesome in regards to combatants in informal attire and treatment of prisoners of war since then.

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Relative_Figure_1715 t1_j9zctyn wrote

Do you know what perfidy is ? I only found out this week that what some of the Russians had done ( surrendering and then resuming fighting under a white flag ) was a war crime. Sounded like very poor sportsmanship but didn’t know it was a war crime. It makes sense though. A few Russians have now made it very difficult to surrender at all but the Ukrainians seam to hold themselves to a higher standard. ✌️

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BSN_tg_bgg t1_j9ztfjf wrote

We were allied with Russia in the Second World War.

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Relative_Figure_1715 t1_ja03dmv wrote

Pffff barely. We shared a common goal of eradicating the Nazis and divying up the land.

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