how do you fight such an army?
IT IS NOT AN ARMY. They are terrorists and part time irregulars. The historical and legal solution is to hang or shoot them. Please not that FDR got around this issue doing the same approximate thing Bush II did. He called them something besides POW’s. Disarmed enemy soldiers, IIRC. That was to skip around the GC requirement that POW’s be sent back home.
The USA had millions of POW’s from all over Europe. The Nazis would grab any able they could find in ’45 and send them to the front, which wasn’t that far away. Most surrendered ASAP. The Bulk of them were kept in the ETO as DP’s.
FDR remaned them all so he could keep the ones here in the sates for a little while longer. Until the troops came home. That way he didn’t violate the letter of the law while pissin all over the spirit of the law.
What is forgotten by most is that there was a considerable bit of resistance in Germany in ’45 from those last few die hard Nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army
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“An army (from Latin Armata “act of arming” via Old French armée), in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation.”
NO Nation = not an army.
