Were there American atrocities committed in world war 2?

Answer 1

There were several atrocities on both sides. The civil war was the first war in which there were alot of prisoners taken leading to the construction of several prison camps throughout the north and south. These camps were almost always undersupplied and undermaintained leading to starvation and exposure deaths in camps on both sides.

Answer 2

i am not entirely sure if there were, but since the Americans were the main power in the post-war world, i think that you would be hard pressed in finding any evidence of them as the Americans would've kept them quiet so as to maintain there status in the post war world. the opposite would be the case if the axis powers had won, the world would've heard about all the atrocities that the allied forces had committed. so therefore i pressume that there were. all we have to do is look at vietnamif we want to see how bad Americans can treat their enemies and the civillian population.

During the invasion of Sicily in 1943, there was an investigation into soldiers of the U.S. 45th (Thunderbird) Division who was said to have killed more than 100 German prisoners at Comise airfield, Gela, Buttera airfield on separate occasions. Two soldiers were accused of murder. Interestingly, this the same 45th Division would execute the guards at Dachau prison in April 1945.

I (seanpmc1) can add a few American atrocities that can easily be found on Google.

First off the "Starvation at Remagen", where over 18,000 German POW's died of malnutrition and abuse.

Also the "Webling Atrocity" which was blamed on the 222nd Inf.Reg. of the 42nd Division. The story on this can be easily found through a search engine as well, but bear in mind while reading about it that only one day before this happened, Dachau Concentration Camp had been discovered, and some of the 222nd had seen the camp and the piles of dead bodies.

(I know about Webling, mainly because one of my Uncles was a member of the 222nd, although its not clear what Company of the 222nd was responsible.)

One more was the Unexcusable bombing of the city of Dresden by the Allies. In the end, the city was almost entirely destroyed, and at least 25,000 Civilians lost their lives. Dresden was not a strategic or tactical target, and the bombing raid has not been satisfactorily explained to this day.

But possibly the worst "crime" and certainly the biggest single loss of life caused by any one action, was the fire-bombing of Tokyo by the Americans. Figures are obviously hard to be precise but approximations are that 100,000 people were killed. The Americans said that a slightly lower figure of about 88,000 were killed. In fact the Americans fire-bombed all but 4 cities in Japan and of those 4 they dropped atom bombs on 2.