WORLD HISTORY AND FACTS

The different treatment of Waffen-SS and Heer POWs by the Allies during World War 2  There was a huge difference in treatment simply because the Waffen SS soldiers were mostly die hard Nazis and were responsible by some of the biggest atrocities during the war, that's why they were judged as a criminal organization.  The bodies of SS personnel who were summarily executed by U.S. troops lie next to a wall in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. There are many reports of Waffen SS soldiers that surrender and got executed on the spot, many were heavily beaten up, and I'm sure torture and other punishments were applied specially by the soviets as result of the genocidal warfare the SS was conducting during the war.  As for the Heer there also might have been these types of situations, but mostly they were regarded as man who were obligated to military service, some weren't even real Nazis, so there's a distinction between the poor guy who got drafted and the die...