Reply #39: History bears out your father's story.

[sammythecat]

After Stalingrad, for example, the Soviets took 91,000 German prisoners. More than 85,000 of them died.
The Germans had themselves to blame for that because of their own harsh and brutal treatment of Soviet prisoners.

That's one of the things that so outraged me when I learned we had implemented a program of torture and abuse. From that point on, our own troops were at much greater risk of suffering the same, or worse. This reason alone is enough that we should not rest until those responsible for this are held accountable, and the world knows that we, as a country, consider torture criminal and completely unacceptable.