Sheepdog Tip of the Day, During Combat tip 175
During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, a German SS unit massacred a group of American POWs at Malmdy. Word of this massacre spread like wildfire through the American forces, and thousands of soldiers resolved never to surrender to the Germans. Conversely, as was mentioned earlier, many Germans who would fight the Russians to their last breath made a point of surrendering to the Americans at the earliest honorable occasion. In its endeavors against Chechen rebels, the Russian army used video tapes of the terrorists beheading Russian soldiers to convince their troops that they must never surrender.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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