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Originally Posted by sigp220.45
I think in the context of that episode of Band Of Brothers it was clear Spiers killed all of the prisoners after giving them smokes. It is referenced later when some of the guys are talking about Spiers, and when he deliberately offers a new guy a smoke to rattle him a little.
I don't know if the real Spiers did the deed, though.
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..I thought that was hilarious.
I saw WWII vets being interviewed, some of them said that they'd never talked about some of the things they saw, many were crying while they talked. I think they jumped at the chance to finally get it out after they'd held it in for 70 years. For some it was probably the last chance. They mentioned several situations where groups of prisoners had been shot en masse because the movement was only in one direction...Berlin, and they had no means to escort them back or manage them even if they could. There wasn't a man among them who looked happy about any of it.