I do have a comment about "NUMBER 21 RUE LE SUEUR." Having read Winston Churchill's War memoirs, and other such materials about WWII, I think I can make a comment about this story taking into account historical perspective. I enjoyed the story, especially when the accused war criminal responded to his interrogator with similar accusations. I believe it is true to say that it is the victorious that defines the term war crimes. I also believe that a true study of history must avoid modern sensitivities, as they may work to filter out the realities of the time, and thereby make the study incomplete. My college history professor, would often say that to really understand history, you should read from the actual writings, speeches and other direct documentation compiled at the time, and by those making the history. In this story we are horrified at the references to all the suffering and death, and wonder how humanity can descend to this level. But we must try to understand the world in which they lived. We must remember that in the 1940's, the world lacked instant, mass communication, and that atrocities on both sides of the conflict were often nothing more than words on a newspaper, or the sanitized radio and movie reel announcements.
Today, bloodshed is broadcast instantly, and without filters. Ironically this has reduced war into glorified video-game like images.
That being said, the one thing we must do, is to honor those that have fought and died serving in the name of human freedom and liberty. War is horrible, but sometimes it is necessary, and in those cases may our intentions be true for the sake of our veterans.