[P-40]

where should they have been?

They should have been far, far inland. But they weren't. So some poor soles were left with the choice (perhaps) of letting them die slowly and painfully or letting them go in their sleep. The only people who should be on trial were the ones who left them all there.

[BykrBayb]

Which is it? We shouldn’t believe they were euthanized because the witnesses failed to evacuate them, or it was right to euthanize them because somebody else should have evacuated them?

There was no need or justification for euthanizing them. None.