Re: [chat] Lies?

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

mlh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:28:06PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Does anyone remember the movie The Great Escape
> 
> yeah that scene where Steve McQueen jumps the fence
> on the motor bike is a classic
> 
> > and the casualty figures in that?
> 
> eh?

50 dead. No wounded, i.e. the Germans deliberately executed them on the
orders of Goebells (?) The movie was based on an actual event and a
number of german soldiers were prosecuted as war criminals after the war
because of that. 

It is normal in war for there to be more wounded than killed

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