iamrevmike wrote today at 4:59 AM
mercedo said True. In early stages of WWII Hitler didn't try to eliminate British soldiers in Calais. He let them go back to Britain.
In general the Nazis did not commit atrocities against western troops. The normally obeyed the "laws of war", accepting surrenders, treating POWs humanely, etc. Also they did not target the general population of western occupied countries to a great degree. There was no policy of slaughtering the French.The Nazis did carry on their race war in the occupied areas, however. They did round up Jews and Slavs and other undesirables in occupied France. They did ship these people off to die in concentration camps.On the Eastern front in Europe the Nazis were hell bent on extermination of the Jewish and Slavic populations. A captured British soldier could expect reasonably humane treatment, while a captured Russian could expect a death camp.