Your'e right there. But it is something most people in the UK Mainland don't understand, the feeling that still exist. As for Allied soldiers and the killing of prisoners etc. the important thing was it was not State sanctioned, and any person caught do so would be libale to military or civil law. Intrestingly as far the Versaille treaty goes, the papers are now starting to be released. Recent releases indicate it was the Australians who wanted the cash and economic reperations. Britian, France and Belgium got land grabs, especially in Africa, and of course France got Alsace and Lorraine back- See Franco -Prussian war , where I still maintain the whole boiling started. For newer mebers I was born and grew up tn the Channel Island's the only part of the UK Occupied by German forces in WW2, although the chattering classes in the Island's would prefer me to say 'Soldiers of a Forign Occuping Power.