@ Dennis: We know you want more Allied stuff and it's really about American softskins since we never see you comment on the wave of amazing new Allied stuff. I understand a family connection, I'm 26 and my Gramps is 89. He was a ball turret gunner on the B-17G "American Beauty" 486th BG. He was hit by a piece of flak but you know what we talked about last night together? The 88 and WW2 German flak which is our favorite subject. You said a lot of things about yourself in your post, whether you realized and wanted to or not. I only want perspective gained here..With the new legions of young builders and my generations subject focus and interest, German and British ground units are here for the long haul...I just think this may be a lot deeper than models for you. All the best and with genuinely good intentions, -Nate-

Someone released a german POW kit where one of the prisoners was being kicked in the ass I believe.

Looks to be a nice set which I intend to buy. I've got a King Tiger and an M20 I built a few years back I could use for a dio with a couple of boxes of these. Dennis. Grow up. I build mainly British/ Commonwealth subjects but I do have more than a passing interest in Waffen SS subjects. Due to the quality of their troops and fighting prowess of their divisions they served pretty much everywhere (except North Africa) and were extremely well equipped in comparison to the Wehrmacht therefore they are an interesting subject to model. Camouflage uniforms, better kit, newer vehicles etc. While they were guilty of many attrocities which we're all well aware of your reference to the Einsatzgruppen is not that relevant as they were not Waffen SS run. Mainly SD. Your comment on Allied POW figures is sublime. I'd like to model at some stage the French campaign of 1940 with BEF prisoners but there's only a couple of British POW's in BD I can think of by Resicast. British troops were known to surrender. My grandfather was captured on Crete in 1941 as he was part of the Royal Marine and Layforce rearguard action to cover the evacuation from Sfakia and spent 4 yrs in a German POW camp. Yes the Germans did ultimately lose the war but it wasn't all rosy and victory after victory for the 6 years we were fighting it. Disasters I can think of with massive amounts of Allied POWs. Fall of France, Tobruk, Crete, Singapore, Guadalcanal, Kasserine Pass, Arnhem, Ardennes. That's without thinking about prisoners in smaller battles. This is not the place to have anti-any nationality rants. I'm not especially fond of the German armed forces from either war as two gt grandads were wounded during WW1 and my grandad spent 4 yrs in a POW camp in WW2. It was a war and unpleasant things happen. If you want historical accuracy in modelling you have to accept that both sides get taken prisoner, both sides get killed or wounded. I hate to say this but that's the general idea of warfare. At least it was when I was a soldier.

Oh and Dennis I read the Scourge Of The Swastika and The Knights Of Bushido by Lord Russell 20 odd years ago. Nothing new in there. However atrocities, shooting of POW's by Allied troops was not unknown like at Biscari. In fact an order was given by an American senior commander during the BoB that no SS or Fallschirmjager prisoners were to be taken. Cuts both ways. The Allies won so the victor writes the history and can selectively leave out the naughty bits that he's done...Thats my two pennies worth on the matter. Lets back to modelling.

Further info on Darren's post - Bravo 6 has the figures of Ivan giving Jerry the boot And Stalingrad has a 10 figure set of defeated Germans , like you see in the newsreels , marching down the centre of the Auto Bahn . Lots of stuff out there , just got to remember where you saw it

I have been taking a closer look at this figure set and one thing I really like about it is the variation in height of the figures.

Another nice set. All figures are from the newsreel of the Stomount battle and Werner Poetschke was the CO of I/SS PzRegt1(mixed) while Peiper was the CO of the PzRegt. Heinz Von Westernhagen was the CO of the II/SS PzRegt1 used as a filler for the missing 50% of the Regt and it was of course,a Tiger Bn. These figs come from 2 scenes in the news footage. The guard and 3 Amer. POWs are shown marching past Hauptsturmfuehrer Diefenthal( not included in kit) and one American is asking "where do we go...this way?". The Poetschke fig i shown at the western entrence to Stomount as the battle starts. There is a burning Panther to the right and infantry (paras) are helping a wounded crewmember under cover of a hedge. Poetschke is seen retrieving a Panzerfaust which witnesses say he used to threaten the Panther crews that had halted after the lead tank got KO'ed. Very cool that they copied the poses from this piece of history. Right up my alley. And yes,I like to build miniature scenes from history that sometimes include WaffenSS troops and yet somehow....I am not a nazi nor do I condone the aweful things they did. It is getting a little old explaining this though. J

To add to what Karl said, it was witnessed that surrendering Germans were shot by British, Canadian, and US troops during the initial Normandy landings. Seeing that it was done by all the Allies, I suspect there was an unwritten order to do so. In defense for the Allies, there was really no place to keep prisoners during the first few hours of invasion.

I find myself having to say the same thing... To my dad nonetheless hahaha. He's not serious though but friends of mine usually ask why I've got so many Germans on my workbench. I can live with it though. Besides, SS camo is much more fun to paint than OD green Just my opinion though.