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Canada kicked Nazi ass o7 (media.piefed.social)
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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

It may be because the Canadians were well known in both wars for not taking prisoners. That's not true in every engagement, of course, but in Normandy, after a number of Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner and then executed, their comrades would execute any Germans they captured.