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Old 11-01-2020, 01:39 PM   #41
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What about dum dum bullets?
There was a serious deterrence effect with those. If the other side caught you with such bullets, it was commonly believed, they would not make you prisoner, but shoot you with them.
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Old 11-01-2020, 08:26 PM   #42
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There was a serious deterrence effect with those. If the other side caught you with such bullets, it was commonly believed, they would not make you prisoner, but shoot you with them.
Also liable to get you in trouble with the CQMS and/or Regimental Armourer given that home made dum-dums apparently play havoc with the bore of your rifle. Your best bet was probably a privately acquired enemy rifle if you were going to get up to that kind of nonsense.
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Old 11-02-2020, 01:53 AM   #43
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There was a serious deterrence effect with those. If the other side caught you with such bullets, it was commonly believed, they would not make you prisoner, but shoot you with them.
We're back to Hague IV 1907, mentioned in post #7 above. Article 23 (e). While the article deliberately does not list examples of weapons meant to cause unnecessary suffering (see the preamble of the Convention to understand why), the customary examples are the serrated edges mentioned in post #7 above, barbed spearheads and arrow heads, rifle-caliber explosive rounds, and rounds that flatten upon impact. Many military manuals at the time explicitly mentioned "dum-dum bullets".

Indeed, when SS-Ostuf. Knöchlein had some 100 British POWs murdered at Le Paradis in May 1940, his after-the-fact excuse was that he had found a crate of dum-dum bullets in the British position after the surrender. (The British POWs' crime had actually been demonstrating on the badly-trained SS camp goons that shooting at enemies who could shoot back could be costlier than shooting at defenseless KZ inmates).
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