ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Exactly. Surrendering Germans were also shot by Allied troops, including Canadians, because they didn't want the Allied advance slowed down by POWs. War is clean. It's a series of lesser evils committed in the name of a greater good. The end justified the means.
Enraged Canadian soldiers executed teenaged German Hitler Jungend after that same body was found to be executing Canadians. There are certain parallels, here.