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In the movie "Fury", American soldiers learn that one of their SS captives had massacred children. They drag him aside, say "Auf Wiedersehen, asshole" and machine-gun him on the spot. Was such summary punishment typical during the end of WWII?

by /u/merteil2 in /r/AskHistorians

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