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War: ruthless and brutal.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: I take issue with Geoffrey Bewley over his slanderous letter, "Was Rommel a War Criminal?" (July-August 2004).
Rommel was a war hero to both the Afrika Korps and the Allies 8th Army troops alike. Bewley's intemperate bitchy remarks about this great general do him no credit at all. He admits that Rommel's name was not linked to any of the German army's major atrocities. Then he makes the snide remark that "people to commit atrocities against were in short supply" in North Africa. What a mean-spirited, baseless, gratuitous insinuation!
Bewley's argument that Rommel is a war criminal is based on the general's single act of shooting a fanatical hate-filled French colonel who refused three times to surrender and enter an Axis vehicle when commanded to do so. Yet Bewley defeats his argument by saying he believes that when "a chap's being taken prisoner, and he won't behave as a prisoner, then shooting is a legal option". So what is his point? Why was it a "war crime"? Then he goes on to makes the fatuous observation that it would look a bit better if the soldier being taken prisoner had a ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, War: ruthless and brutal.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)