Why you Must NOT Shoot Medics in War

Thank you Displate for sponsoring this video. Click here: displate.com/simplehistory?art=5ed90b34df24f to get my special discount – 1-2 Displates 20% off 3+ Displates 30% off. Discount will be automatically applied to your cart. Check out our other Channel:    / @simplehistorylive   Become a Simple History member: youtube.com/simplehistory/join Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/simplehistory Discord server: discord.gg/JZsPQXHeYC As a way to alleviate some of the horrors of combat, social convention and international law make some individuals on the battlefield off limits to deliberate targeting. Very often, however, in the heat of battle, these conventions are ignored and those who should be off limits are intentionally targeted. Copyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media. SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE Get the Simple History books on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner-%60/e/B00H5TYLAE/ T-Shirts teespring.com/stores/simple-h... Simple history gives you the facts, simple! See the book collection here: Amazon USA www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner/e/B00H5TYLAE/ Amazon UK www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Turner/e/B00H5TYLAE/ www.facebook.com/Simple-History-549437675141192/ twitter.com/SimpleHistoryYT Credit: Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London) Script: Robert de Graff Narrator: Chris Kane vocalforge.com/ 00:00 The legality of shooting medics in war 00:24 Americans deliberating targeting British Officers in the American Revolution 03:26 Geneva Convention when medics forfeit their protection 05:15 Axis and Allies respecting medics in ww2 06:25 Heres what happened to Medics on the Eastern front 07:42 Japanese sharpshooters looking for medics

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