Showing posts with label POWs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POWs. Show all posts

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Part of "The Penicillin Holocaust" : Allied POWs dying needlessly of infection because the Allies decided they didn't deserve penicillin...

A whole lot of people died needlessly of infections that wartime penicillin could have/ should have cured --- all because the Allies decided to treat it as a military weapon of war --- only to be used to cure lightly wounded Allied combat troops, to get them back under enemy fire as soon as possible.

Friday, December 7, 2012

HMS Birkenhead & HMS Nova Scotia: connecting the highs & lows of human behaviour to Star Wars

frequent visitor to Halifax Nova Scotia ends up the victim of Allied brutality
Two British troopships, sunk a century apart, on opposite sides of South Africa, probe the very heights and depths of human morality.