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Did any German pilots get lynched by the British in the Second World War?
Like, if they bailed out and got captured by locals?
asked in german, second world war, war crime

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Gigaroth answers:

lynched? tarred feathered then hung? sounds a little extreme?

well there was no recored killing of luftwafer pilots by the british ground forces. but there is no mention if they where authorised to kill enemy pilots who resisted with weapons. relitivly few aircraft where ever actually shop down in the UK in WW2 as the biggest raid ever held on the UK (london) comprised of only 150 fighter aircraft and 50 middle weight bombers.

later on in 1944, the biggest allied aerial bombing took place with over 1000 bombers over dresden, that one raid killed more than 10 times more in one night and day in one city, than the luftwafer ever managed bombing the whole of the UK for 3 years, something like 260,000 dead alone + double that injured


3 years ago / reply

cairina.moschata answers:

There appear to be no records showing Luftwaffe pilots being lynched by the British whilst landing on English soil.

There is a case of a German spy who was hanged at Pentonville prison on 17/12/40 and a Josef Jakobs who was shot on 14/8/41

William Joyce, Nazi propagandist dubbed Lord Haw-Haw by a Fleet Street cartoonist, was captured in 1945. Joyce was tried for high treason and executed.
He was the last person to be executed for high treason, nearly 60 years ago,


3 years ago / reply

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