Why did he break the Geneva convention
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There’s no Geneva in hell
They weren't in Geneva
the "look I washed for supper" Jews at the start were worse. The surrendering soldiers said "we're not Germans, we're Czech"
He had to get revenge for him killing the Jew
Because there werent any fellow soldiers or officers to watch him do it. So he can't get caught (word of enemy prisoners doesn't count).
Upham spared his life from the machine gun nest, yet he returned to try to kill him basically. Also addressed him personally "ayyoo Upham my bro, sorry I tried to kill your homies again, but you're still my bitch right?"
I laughed.
So where do all the jews go?
>if the soldiers had really been german, it would have been okay to kill them
t. (((spielberg)))
Why did an entire section of Germans surrender to one soifaced amerimutt?
Because Upham is meant be America. Mellish represents the jews. The other German stabs him to death with a hitler youth knife (symbolizing German indoctrination). When the other German passes Upham on the stairs he just stares him down and keeps walking because Upham isn't even a threat. This echoes the inaction while the holocaust is going on.
Upham killing Willie symbolizes what Spielberg wants - kill all the nazis to atone for your inaction in preventing my people from being genocided
Would have been a better scene if he just slammed the rifle butt in Willie's face and then sent him with the other POWs. Committing a war crime is a dumb response to what Willie did.
>NO NO NO YOU CAN'T JUST SHOOT SURRENDERED PRISONERS! WHAT ABOUT THE GENEVA CONVENTION?!
Prisoners are something you take, your enemy cannot force them upon you. You are actually completely free to refuse to take someone prisoner, tough luck if they dropped their weapon first. You are only bound to treat them well after taking them prisoner, otherwise all you would have to do to destroy your enemy is to declare millions of your useless populace to be soldiers and then surrender them as POWs, so the enemies logistics break down handling all that without becoming war criminals.
This completely falls flat because the german couldn't know that Mellish was a jew, thereby he was not deliberately targeted. Effectively it means that the jew did not die because of a property of innocence (being jewish) but of a property of guilt (being a danger to the germans life).
>Geneva convention
that's like saying people follow Yea Forums global rules here
lmao pathetic
Idea that killing unarmed soldiers who have surrendered is wrong is an European invention, because Europeans have been obsessed with honorable warfare for centuries. Expecting melting sewer pots like USA to understand concepts like honor, chivalry and empathy is like expecting special ed children to understand nuclear physics.
Americans are soulless automatons. They aren 't evil, but (((the beasts))) that operate them certainly are.
Good posts
It's war who cares
It is symbolism, you do not think about why the things are happening and just look at the obvious picture. If you see the soviet parade after WWII and soldiers throwing down the nazi flags, you do not ask yourself whether the russian soldier doing it has a personal agenda against the flags design and whether he has written an essay on why black/red/white tricolours are edgy shit which does not belong on flags.
It's only a warcrime if you lose the war.
The 1929 edition of the Third Geneva convention (the one that would be applied during WW2) doesn't actually specifically cover the treatment of prisoners of war before their arrival in a PoW camp.
Because Saving Private Ryan is a pro-war movie
Probably in obedience to an idea cherished by American audiences ie that even the most weedy and cowardly of them (someone like Upham) can still whip a sizable formation of Hitler's Ubermenschen.
Yeah but it's okay when you win
So they didn't have to surrender to Soviets?
We would never have Wars at all if it wasn't for brain dead muscle bound people who became soldiers. If everyone was a weak nerd then there would be no Wars. You literally can't prove me wrong.
you sound like you've never even won a war
nice dubs tho
rent free
there would still be nerd wars user
Settle Wars through call of duty
It seems strange that it’s possible, but it wouldn’t be the first time that one guy captured over a hundred soldiers
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>colors are now being considered edgy
What a time to be alive
why did he let the rest of the surrendering "SS" run off after executing the one guy? such a dumb movie
>Prisoners are something you take, your enemy cannot force them upon you. You are actually completely free to refuse to take someone prisoner, tough luck if they dropped their weapon first. You are only bound to treat them well after taking them prisoner, otherwise all you would have to do to destroy your enemy is to declare millions of your useless populace to be soldiers and then surrender them as POWs, so the enemies logistics break down handling all that without becoming war criminals.
Surrendering prisoners are to be taken into custody. Shooting them is a warcrime. Stop spouting some shit you read on stars&stripes.com.
>German soldier, instead of consenting to be a POW, regroups with the rest of his army
>this makes him a bad man and worthy of death
Pure pettiness. Any American soldier would have done the same. Upham's childish and depraved attempt to feel like a strong man in the wake of his cowardly abandonment of his comrade in need is one of the most heinous acts in this film
cuz he's a pussy that was too spineless to save his friend so he wanted to vent his frustration and feel like a big man killing an unarmed man
To further radicalize the small minded normie who identifies with the effeminate skeptic at the beginning of the film only to finally realize at the completion of his ark that "All Nazis Actually Have To die"
Every one of those jews look white to me
He didn't want to get fragged by the survivors of his unit, Reiben would have dissected him alive if he saw steamboat Willie there after what happened.
He gets the POW's to fuck off after so he has a chance to hide the body.
Thats the point dummy.
They look "White" and yet are a "minority"
They both gain from affirmative action and remain in power when whites are highering only other "whites"
Where do they benefit from affirmative action?
Because it has unironically happened several times throughout history
Turns out most people in a fight are scared shitless and if you teleport behind even like 6 guys with a death rod pointed at their heads, they will not bother thinking anout if its specifically them its pointed at or how many more of you there are or if they'd be the one to get hit, most people arent rambo and will throw down their weapon
>t. 56% formerly 90%
They can discriminate against whites and only their own people are priviliged. It's like "Indian hiring Syndrome", they will scream racism to get jobs/money/power and will only hire Indians, see Intel going to the loo.
That's not an affirmative action program, though.
It is, whites have to hire loo and jews. Whites have to share everything that they own, which literally means that they own nothing goyim. Jews have to share absolutely nothing, they can hire unlimited Jews and have their own exclusive living areas. White people get shot by the police or the military if they want the same thing that (((Eisenhauers))) people have.
How many jobs have you actually had?
Enough, but I don't own a company. Even though I could since I'm not white, the same as (((you))). Good luck, faggot.
Keep telling yourself you could own a company.
The last time jews did that, we killed all of them here. See China 800 bc. Thank you, (((faggot))) for giving us nukes and money. Soon.
Imagine being this asshurt.
Soon.
>Its a Nerds bomb other nerds with drones and missiles while eating hot pockets at their computer episode
Take your schizophrenia meds
Because Spielberg is a juvenile moron and that was supposed to be a redemptive moment.
My grand-grandpa was originally from Sudetenland, so by citizenship first Czechoslovakian and later of the Reich, as our family is partially German. With that the conscription to Wehrmacht came later and he ended up deployed in Normandy. He wasn't directly at the beach-head, but few kilometers further in the mainland. He never really talked about the war and I remember him as only a teenager before he passed away, but once my dad got him a bit drunk and he told us that he mostly remembers all the bright lights in the sky on the ground from the night before and after, the continuous distant fire from pretty much all sides and that there was so many dead paratroopers in the trees everywhere. He never really said if he killed someone, but told us that his unit shot with machineguns at American supply convoy, so I guess he did. Thanks for reading my family blog.
The guy he shot wasn't the one that knifed the jewish soldier
Nothin personnel, kinder.
I hate the fact that the movie portrays this as his redemption. all it makes him in the end is a coward AND a war criminal
Spielberg isn't mature enough for these kinds of movies. His first instincts are Wilhelm screams and trampoline pratfalls.
Probably the greatest soldier that ever lived
That's nothing.
>"He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war.""
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He didn't liberate an entire city on his own though.