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They didn't change the rules, they legitimately clarified a grey area which wasn't covered by the Geneva Conventions. This was also a legal status change that meant that *in theory* German prisoners no longer had the legal rights offered to POWs, but *in practice* no, the United States certainly...

That's really the thing. The "clean Wehrmacht" wasn't really a myth, in the sense that it was not something that arose out of bad historical research or post-war mythologization. Rather, it was a politically expedient act of propaganda and misinformation that was intentionally created and...

Yes, the entire point of the Geneva conventions defining combatants the way they do (uniformed, armed forces) was specifically so that a nation couldn't unilaterally decide that certain disliked units didn't count. The idea that it was legitimate for the Nazis to do so is absolute bullshit.