Editing Werwolf (section)

===British reprisals===
In April 1945 Churchill announced that the Allies would incarcerate all captured German officers for as long as a guerrilla threat existed.<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 253"/> Hundreds of thousands of German last-ditch troops were kept in the makeshift [[Rheinwiesenlager]] for months, "mainly to prevent Werwolf activity".<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 253"/> 

Prior to the occupation [[SHAEF]] investigated the reprisal techniques the Germans had used in order to maintain control over occupied territories since they felt the Germans had had good success.<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 257">{{harvnb|Biddiscombe|1998|p=257}}</ref> Directives were loosely defined and implementation of reprisal was largely left to the preferences of the various armies, with the British seeming uncomfortable with those involving bloodshed.<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 257"/> Rear-Admiral [[Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman|H.T. Baillie Grohman]] for example stated that killing hostages was "not in accordance with our usual methods".<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 257"/> Thanks to feelings such as this, and relative light guerrilla activity in their area, relatively few reprisals took place in the UK zone of operations.<ref name="Biddiscombe 1998 257"/>