Picture of the Day

[LuckyOne]

Stug III Ausf.D of Sonderverband 288 being inspected by South Africans (IIRC) after its capture at Gazala.

[Big Lebowski]

(I literally own underwear older than you).

That makes you what? And old fart that acts immature?

Dont get all upset when people point out you are being a prick to others.

Danish resistance fighters guard nazi sympathisers while they await trial. Copenhagen 5.5.1945

[VonMudra]

AFAIK he should thank his lucky stars he was picked up by Finns and not Germans. But I'm sure the forum history freaks would know more about this. My knowledge on the matter is that most POWs were treated, if not well, at least humanely by our armed forces. But my sources may very well be quite biased.

Russian POWs were very well treated by the Finns (apart from the Russian "partisans" who crossed the border with the purpose of mowing down Finnish civilians).  What this guy would have a lot more to worry about is returning home, since any POWs were deemed traitors by Stalin, and most were immediately packed off to the gulags, or just shot.

[Thorondor123]

AFAIK he should thank his lucky stars he was picked up by Finns and not Germans. But I'm sure the forum history freaks would know more about this. My knowledge on the matter is that most POWs were treated, if not well, at least humanely by our armed forces. But my sources may very well be quite biased.

Russian POWs were very well treated by the Finns (apart from the Russian "partisans" who crossed the border with the purpose of mowing down Finnish civilians).  What this guy would have a lot more to worry about is returning home, since any POWs were deemed traitors by Stalin, and most were immediately packed off to the gulags, or just shot.

Winter '42 was not too great for them though. Quite a few POW's died due to lack of food.

And yeah, spies and soldiers caught in action killing women and children behind the lines were shot immediately.

[THeTA0123]

Well the finns hardly had food for themselves.. Atrocities were commited by both sides.

Most regular russian soldiers treated finnish POW's fairly well but the danger came when a political Commisar came involved. The grand majority of crimes was commited by these kommisars..

[Thorondor123]

Generals Lennart Oesch and Vladimir Kirpitšnikov in 1941. After the war Kirpitšnikov was sent straight to SMERŠ' prison camp. He was shot in 1950.

[Born2Kill 007]

http://desertwar.net/soviet-prisoners-of-war-in-finland.html

http://www.hs.fi/English/article/Too+awful+an+image+of+war/1135223124092

[Torenico]

(I literally own underwear older than you).

That just confirms you're more immature than what i thought 

Sailors of French Battleship "Strasbourg"

[VonMudra]

[Born2Kill 007]

KV-1 used for target practise, Russia 1942

[Dukat]

17th US Airborne Division, Wesel, March 24th, 1945.

[VonMudra]

FJ with Pak36 in normandy.

[Dukat]

Saint-Lô area, August 3rd, 1944.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

[Born2Kill 007]

"Marines treating a wounded combat dog during action on the Orote Pennisula"