We arrived at the house to hear a wounded horse screaming and were asked to put it out of its misery. An RAF NCO glider pilot obliged – and then shot all the other horses and cattle just to make sure!
None of us worried in the slightest
When the Luftwaffe occupied bases in France, its personnel were told that any pillaging or plundering of civilian property would be punishable by death:
NICHT PLÜNDERN
PLÜNDERN WIRD MIT DEM TODE BESTRAFT.
In May 1940, two privates were caught stealing some shoes and furs and had been summarily court-martialled and shot within hours.
Another example of German behaviour was the treatment of cattle which the French had abandoned. The cattle were in some pain due to not having been milked. But rather than shooting them out of hand as that 'brave' RAF NCO glider pilot did in 1944, they flew in a 'Milking Kompanie' from Germany who were able to save the French cows......