• Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Every war I’ve heard of since, people say “I wasn’t afraid of the British, I wasn’t afraid of the French, I wasn’t afraid of the US, but those godamn Canadian’s are ruthless.”

    I have a theory that it’s all of the sorey’s stacked up in a pent up rage

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      7 days ago

      It may be because the Canadians were well known in both wars for not taking prisoners. That’s not true in every engagement, of course, but in Normandy, after a number of Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner and then executed, their comrades would execute any Germans they captured.