Re: A historical perspective.
Other cases happened when concentration camps were liberated by Allied troops. There were several cases where the prisoners turned around and killed their guards.
As the liberation of Paris neared in 1944, the Gestapo firing squads worked overtime killing their prisoners in Frienze (sp) Prison near the city.
When the Japanese fled Manila in 1944, they reportedly killed as many as 100,000 Filipinos.
There are many reports that immediately following WWII, Russian troops raped a lot of German women. Quite a few summary executions also took place.
Sorry, but brutality in wartime is all too common. Fleeing troops frequently kill people, as do newly liberated people who kill their oppressors.