Local civilians may have no choice but to collaborate because the partisans have frightened them into it. In which case the poor wretches are caught between a rock and a hard place. Of course, it is very difficult to decide about what's to be done in war time but I just hate that rhetoric about "necessary" and "unavoidable" civilian casulaties. It's so cynical. That was the reasoning behind Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many people still seem to endorse this view.Originally Posted by Crocodile
Regarding the consensus -- I agree that the opportunity to administer death penalty may theoretically make it possible for someone to abuse it... But this is where I'll leave it at the moment or my brain will short-circuit thinking about all the "how"s and "why"s...