Tales indeed! Perhaps the Nazis thought that because of the allies fire bombing their cities (and Americans fire bombed Japanese cities even more) they'd be better off being captured by Americans?. When Americans were in their section of Berlin, American troops would march down a wide avenue, that was lined by bushes. German children would, from the cover of the bushes, throw rocks at the Americans. A senior officer said, "This will cease!" The next day he stationed jeeps with machine guns mounted on them. After the Americans marched by, and were rained upon with the usual rock throwing, the machine guns opened fire, strafing the bushes along the street, from one end to the other. The jeeps drove away, leaving the the dead and wounded children, for their parents to find, and deal with.
It's important to put the losers in their place by any means possible.
