Schäferhund - Vol. 3 Ch. 17

[Panzercracker]

@TacticalBuns medic was not allowed engaged in combat, in previous chapters, she drove the gun carrier jeep in offensive, thus she counted as offensive medic, not unarmed or neutral medic.

 

[Panzercracker]

Geneva convention not protect hostile medic. The medic in previous chapters drove a jeep with gun turret on it and clearly in offensive on German tanks. All of those count as armed and engaged in combat, thus kill her not counted as war crime.

 

[UserNamesAreOverrated]

@Panzercracker
I completely forgot that.
Well, she was unarmed and acting as a medic at the time of her death, so I'm pretty sure that's still against it, but that's getting into the details and I'm not too sure.
But that means that the Americans also committed a war crime, because using the protection given by the Geneva convention against its purpose is also a war crime.

 

[TacticalBuns]

@Panzercracker

"In modern times, most combat medics carry a personal weapon, to be used to protect themselves and the wounded or sick in their care. When and if they use their arms offensively, they then sacrifice their protection under the Geneva Conventions."

Combat medics are protected by the Geneva Convention. However, if they engaged in the hostility, then their immunity are invalid and is not protected by the Convention.

 

[Panzercracker]

@TacticalBuns that much later when terrorists attacks usually target medical crews and after WW2 because many cases medics were killed because they carry an standard infantry rifle instead pistol as excuse. And in this manga, the medic is driver of the gun carrier jeep that used in attack against German tanks, or in chapter 10 she carry grenades and give them to the captain while attacking a bunker, that's clearly hostile actions, not medical support or protect wound.

 

[Arkhell]

Actually the point of the m1 carbine was to give engineers and medics something that sucked less then an m3 grease gun or a 1911 for everything further away then 30m.

 

[Fukinweeb]

"Send a medic so i can kill him too"
-Sgt Rex Power Colt

 

[NatsukazeAi]

seems like Geneva Conventions doesn't needed here.

 

[Ulfhednar]

Arguing about the Geneva conventions is nice and all, but the moment one sides breaks them, they're meaningless.
If an army has been known to use symbols of neutrality like the red cross (or civilian clothes for that matter) in surprise attacks, their enemies rightfully won't care about these symbols any longer.
Except for some truly extreme cases (like Americans mass-executing German kindergarteners suspected of being Werwolf forces), it's more or less understandable imo. Not much point in dying with a clean conscience.

 

[T-72B3MreadThemanga]

that not warcrime if ya won