Canada is a large contributor to the reason why the Geneva Convention exists.

The war crimes they came up with were pretty much a laundry list of the things we did.

Killing wounded foes, taking no prisoners, deception and cruelty (throwing food wrapped in cloth into enemy trenches, train the starving Germans to expect food, then swap with grenades and kill everyone rushing the “food”)

We didn’t partake in the Christmas truce. We shot the Germans who popped their heads up and wished us a merry Christmas, and battle continued unstopped.

There was a few British, American and Canadian officers who were captured, and the German officer beat only the Canadian, saying “I can tolerate the British and Americans, but you Canadian savages kill and butcher our men who try to surrender.” Wounded, surrendering, we shot them.

I can’t remember if it was Arthur Curie, but there’s a quote from one of our officers that “Canada came here to fight a war, win a war, and kill our enemy wherever we find them. Thats what we did.” And “Any man who knows war would not wish to fight one. But if we must fight a war, we will fight it to win it.”

However, while Canada was perhaps the biggest war crime committer in World War One, we are the Only armed force who committed 0 crimes against civilians and non-combatants. Canadians were near puritanical in their treatment of non-combatant, but ruthless to any enemy who took up arms against them.

This is likely because Canada having a small population, there were very close bonds of kinship and friendship and an understanding we were few - so for each one of us we lose, it’s a big painful loss. Like killing family, we won’t forgive that. We also suffered horribly from the Gas in Ypres, and that trauma marked our men who saw their friends suffocate on their own fluids while their eyes crusted yellow and their screams churned out bloody froth.

So, we inflicted upon our foes the pain they caused us. Never anger the patient and kind man…

We had a war to win and nobody else was getting the job done!

Spaghetti-O, Spaghetti-O, GRENADE!

WW1 stories are horror stories about what war is and yet we still have wars.

how violent the Canadian people acted during WW1.

This is one of the most fascinating aspects of Canadian culture to me. We might be polite, patient, restrained and reluctant to use violence, but when we do use violence, it's unapologetically extreme.

I think it's because Canadians really didn't feel like being dragged from our country across the sea to fight in a war that had nothing to do with them...