I came across this article, about the ruthlessness of Canadians toward the Germans in the First World War.
In one particularly cruel episode, Canadians even exploited the trust of Germans who had apparently become accustomed to fraternizing with allied units. Lieutenant Louis Keene described the practice of lobbing tins of corned beef into a neighbouring German trench. When the Canadians started hearing happy shouts of “More! Give us more!” they then let loose with an armload of grenades.
Others were cold-blooded executions. In one case, a Canadian surreptitiously slipped a live grenade into the greatcoat pockets of a German prisoner.
By war’s end, the Canadian Corps’ reputation as an army of “no mercy” was known all across Northern France and was helped along by Canadian bar boasts to that effect. “You will very seldom now hear of the Canadians taking prisoners, they take them to some quiet spot and then it is a case of the dead may march,” officer C.V. Williams wrote in a letter to his father.
I’ve always thought Canadians were so nice!
[NB: The National Post is known for its conservative editorials, though the owners support the Liberal Party.]
Like anything, most Canadians are self-effacing, polite, and willing to help. Canadian soldiers are a different thing in some ways. Typically, Canada has had to make up for numbers with quality, some of that is viciousness and competence. Look up the Devils’ Brigade in WW2, Pyongyang (where the PPCLI got a Presidential citation of their actions in Korea), and the actions of Canadian snipers in Afghanistan.
When we set our mind to it, we are very very good at whatever is in front of us.
Canadians are not particularly nice to enemies during wartime, this is true.
(Incidentally, the National Post (Canwest) was sold by the Asper family (Liberal Party supporters) in 2010 to Postmedia. Postmedia is 66 per cent American owned by New Jersey based Chatham Asset Management.
The National Post endorses the Conservative Party every election, and consistently runs articles about how they hate Trudeau, and so should we.
There’s an old adage, “Beware the anger of a quiet man.”
Canada, as far as I know, has never actually started a war. But every now and then, some dickbag overseas starts a war, and we then have to drag our asses half way around the world to sort their shit out. So when we get there, we sort their shit out.
Don’t like it? Stop starting all these wars, dickbags.
There were also plenty of stories/rumours circulating about German army atrocities, from pretty well the beginning of WW1 onwards. In particular, this one will have resonated with Canadians:
