Originally Posted by Fitz

Right... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_massacre.

There isn't any question that the incident at Malmedy violated the terms of the Geneva Convention. The Allies however tried to claim that the treatment of German "Disarmed Enemy Forces" in the POW pens of the Rhineland were NOT a violation. That's the distinction.

American POWs typically survived their internment in Germany and were monitored by the Red Cross. Even American-Jewish POWs.