# Vicious Canadians **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vicious-canadians/977887 "2023-01-08T19:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vicious-canadians/977887/1 "2023-01-08T19:19:31Z")
I came across [this article](https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war), 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.] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vicious-canadians/977887)._