enemy destruction Quotes
Calley was the officer who gave orders to kill men, women and children of My Lai, a Vietnam village which Army intelligence felt had been sympathetic and given help and assistance to the Viet Cong. Calley was convicted by Court Marshall, but was released after serving a very light sentence. No one above Cally was held in any way responsible.
The months later, Colorado “volunteers” attacked a Cheyenne village flying and American and White flag, killing the women and children at what would come to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
Prior to this order, some German submarines had assisted the survivors of torpedoed ships. None did after and some actually machine gunned survivors in the water. One aspect of the quotation that is particularly interesting was the Admiral’s justification example of the Allied bombing of German Cites. What he did not say was that this practice did not begin until Germany—at the insistence of Hitler—ignored the Geneva Conventions and bombed London, Coventry and other English cities. Hitler declared London an “Open City”. The Allies retaliated by bombing factories that were in German Cities. After the war Donitz was found guilty of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and using thousands of slave laborers in his shipyards. He was sentenced to 10 years, one of the lightest sentences if the German War Crimes Trials.
