It would of course have been politically unthinkable, but in purely judicial terms the Vietnamese would have been justified in executing all captured pilots.
Why? In the not so communist, but eastern?block eastgerman Army the?dealing with POWs was only a theoretical question. But we?have been told never ever to touch a POW.?The Hague convention is quite clear in such issues and the Penal Code of the not so communist, but eastern block east Germany had a special article (280) against the mistreatment of POWs.
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