Should the Canadian military allowed the May 13 deserter execution?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_May_1945_German_deserter_execution

NO. The officer who allowed and assisted that should've been court-martialed and sentenced to life.

Also the fact that deserters were still considered criminals in post-war West Germany is a total disgrace. Amazing and disgusting that decades later Germany was actually arresting and trying people for resisting Hitler and the Nazis...

[Helsinkian]

A similar incident happens in the Dutch movie Black Book which is worth watching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(film)

[Kingpoleon]

The most covered up genocide is that of the Germans post-WWII. It’s inconvenient that you can go from the oppressors to the oppressed overnight, and it certainly makes many people uncomfortable to discuss. There were as many as 80,000,000 Germans in the Baltic States, Imperial Germany, and Austria-Hungary in the mid-1910s. Today? About 95,000,000. Considering most populations... There were about 37-38 million French in the mid-1910s. Today? About 70,000,000. 19,000,000 Spanish in the mid-1910s. Today? Almost 50,000,000. 32,500,000 Italians in the mid-1910s. Today? About 62,000,000. Sure, some of it boils down to different birth rates and the world wars, but Italy and France experienced that, too. Spain experienced a civil war where more than one in ten Spaniards died, a dictatorship for decades, and concentration camps that held millions and killed about half a million. The true number of Germans killed will never be known.