Steve Domitrovich, Last Survivor Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge WWII

[appalachiablue]

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Steve Domitrovich, age 90, last survivor of the Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium. (2014). In a field in Belgium, 84 American POWs were massacred by German Waffen SS troops.

SD Story & obituary, Jan. 14, 2017. https://www.timesonline.com/c1934608-df53-11e6-b72b-c7e4c1fced32.html

Read More, Malmedy Massacre, https://democraticunderground.com/1016280114

[captain queeg]

1. I read that Hitler specically orderd brutal treatment of the GIs, thinking it would spread fear

It had the opposite effect when the rumors about the massacre spread. Soldiers figured they'd better fight to the death than surrender. I don't think this massacre was typical on the western front, but these guys ran into the SS.

[appalachiablue]

2. The SS also did this on the eastern front, desperate and vicious.

[GopherGal]

6. IIRC, the USSR had not signed the Geneva Convention

so there was all sorts of brutal stuff going on with prisoners there.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-USSR-decide-not-to-sign-the-Geneva-convention]

[appalachiablue]

10. Sounds right sorry to say

[gladium et scutum]

11. One of the terms of the Geneva Convention

is the requirement to treat POWs of a non-signatory nation (such as the USSR) in the same manner as you would treat the POWs of a nation that signed the Convention.

[irisblue]

3. He passed at age 94. Surrounded by family.

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https://www.toddfuneralhome.net/obituary/Steve-Domitrovich

[appalachiablue]

8. Thank you, he was in very good shape in the video

considering age and all he had been through in the war. And his brothers were likely gone.

[yonder]

4. Thanks. 90 wasn't adding up for me.

[TomSlick]

5. Another hero passes.

[appalachiablue]

7. More and more, as the last heroes pass. My uncle just

went, in his 90s, Korean War Veteran, Purple Heart, Silver Star. Became a cardiologist in Detroit.

[TomSlick]

9. There yet remain heroes among us.

The WWII heroes are passing and the remaining Korean War heroes are fewer in number. Heroes of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. are with us and should not be forgotten. So long as men and woman are prepared to risk all for the country, there will be heroes in our midst.

[appalachiablue]

12. That's right, more heros from Vietnam, Iraq, Afgahnistan