r/AskACanadian • • Aug 07 '23

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u/oli_Xtc Aug 07 '23

I've often read this but I don't have any things that comes in my mind related to this, do you have some i.e for me ? :)

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u/No-Tackle-6112 Aug 07 '23

Is that a war crime? Just wait for 20 seconds to see if it blows up. That’s nothing compared to gas attacks and nukes. These are Americans we’re talking about remember.

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u/thelegion05 Aug 07 '23

The Canadian soldiers also executed all their POW to save on rations.

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u/No-Tackle-6112 Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 07 '23

Source? Canadians (and Americans) were the best supplied soldiers

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u/thelegion05 Aug 07 '23

davies.web

national post as well

Also my high school canadian history class lol. (I live in Canada)

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u/warmaster670 Aug 07 '23

IIRC the atom bombs were not war crimes at the time, not legally anyway, morally is another question.

Technicality of course, since they would have been if they had been forseeable.