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The Medal of Honour for a feigned surrender? Oh dear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy

• kghose 12y ago
  They did it first! :)
• JshWright 12y ago
  To be fair, he was just responding in kind. Clearly the enemy soldiers had done the same thing while he was gone.
  • vonmoltke 12y ago
    Overpowering your captors, even if you allowed yourself to be captured, is not the same thing as feigning surrender. Once you are taken into custody you are allowed to try to escape. There are no restrictions on taking your former captors prisoner in the process. In a feigned surrender you never get taken into custody.
    • Crito 12y ago
      Perhaps he initially did genuinely surrender, only to launch an escape seconds later, but claimed otherwise after the fact because it made a better story. ;)
• wdewind 12y ago
  That's interesting. The Germans surrendered as well, but they may have done so with the intent of actually surrendering, and upon seeing the weakness of the people holding them realized they could probably break free, making it not perfidy on their part. That being said, the Geneva Convention didn't exist when this happened.