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Jew Supressed War Crimes

Post by Wade Hampton III » Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:03 am

Living History: ‘Midnight Massacre’ in Utah was worst mass
murder at a POW camp in U.S. history.

By Eileen Hallet Stone Special to The Tribune
First Published Nov 05 2016 12:57PM • Updated 1 hour ago

Showing up for duty shortly after midnight on July 8, 1945, Pvt. Clarence V.
Bertucci climbed to the top of a guard tower near the camp commander's office
at the Salina prisoner-of-war camp in Sevier County. He threaded a cartridge
belt into a mounted .30-caliber M1917 Browning machine gun, aimed it toward
tents housing some 250 sleeping German prisoners, and methodically fired nearly
250 rounds of ammunition within 15 seconds. Firing from left to right and back
again, Bertucci shot up 30 tents, killed nine prisoners of war and wounded
19 others. Bertucci was unrepentant about his murderous actions, which flew in
the face of the 1929 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.
Occurring two months after VE Day had marked Germany's formal surrender on
May 8 and the end of Hitler's war, Bertucci's "Midnight Massacre" would be
remembered as "the worst massacre at a POW camp in U.S. history."

Wade says, "Even Confederate POWs were treated better than this."

To help alleviate Great Britain's insurmountable POW housing problems, from
1942 through 1945 approximately 425,000 Axis prisoners of war (including more
than 370,000 Germans and 50,000 Italians) were shipped to 500 POW camps located
in all but four U.S. states. "Segregated camps" were designated for uncompromising
Nazi POWs.

Incarcerated in Utah, ideal because of its remoteness, some 15,000 prisoners were
distributed among a dozen camps of varying occupancy and isolation. Several
thousand were interned at Defense Depot Ogden while 1,000 more were incarcerated
at Tooele Ordnance Depot. With "PW" emblazoned on their outer clothing, most
worked in agriculture, mills and sundry industries to make up for the lost labor
force that was fighting overseas. Built at the site of a former Civilian
Conservation Corps camp at the eastern end of the town's Main Street, Camp
Salina held 250 Germans rumored to be from the military Wehrmacht, the Waffen-SS,
or "veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps." Brought in to help with the harvest, they
were willing to work and be friendly to the locals, said historian Pat Bagley, a
cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune. "Beyond the occasional hard-core Nazis who
carved swastikas into peaches, the Germans were mostly well-behaved," he wrote
in the Nov. 27, 2005, edition of The Tribune. A small, temporary unit occupied
from 1944 to 1945, the camp contained 43 wooden-floor tents, several buildings,
an officers' quarters and three guard towers along its perimeter.

On July 7, the prisoners spent a full day working in Salina's beet fields, returned
to the compound for dinner, and later retired to their tents. They were waiting to
be shipped home. Born in 1921 in New Orleans, Bertucci was a sixth-grade dropout
who enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1940, served an eight-month tour of duty in England
with an artillery unit, reportedly had a "discipline problem" and apparently survived
"two courts-martial." He also exhibited a "pathological hatred for Germans," saying
he felt "cheated" by not having seen combat, and that someday he would get his (macho-
man) "turn."

Wade says, "How many lives have been lost by this John-Wayne-macho-BS, who never
served a day in combat."

Prior to the attack, Bertucci drank beer at a Salina bar and stopped for coffee at
a café. He chatted up a waitress, told her something exciting was about to happen
(premeditated capitol murder), and in the cool night breeze walked back to the camp.
No one would have suspected anything was different than any other day. But it was.
Amid the horrifying screams from the tents, Bertucci yelled for more ammunition.
Dehumanizing the victims, he never saw their eyes. And taken down by soldiers and
placed into custody, he seemingly didn't care. "The wounded were taken to the Salina
hospital where it's remembered that blood flowed out of the front door," Bagley wrote.
"One prisoner, nearly cut in half, would survive six hours." The victims, between
24 and 28 years old, were dressed in khaki U.S. military uniforms. Taps was played
and with no post-war German flag to drape over their caskets, they were buried in
the Fort Douglas Cemetery.

Once recovered, the wounded soldiers returned to Germany.
Bertucci was declared insane.
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