I went to Borders and browsed through the book. The experience was colorful for a foot soldier, that's a little bit surprising. Mr. Blunt mentioned one detail: a German Major surrendered a chrome plated Luger to him ("12 in exchange of 100" story).... so some German also chrome plated their Lugers? Originally, I assume all those jobs were done by GIs.
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Regarding kicking head, it's disgusting, but not as bad as in my imagination: He mentioned that the head was there, he did not cut it off. He just kicked it a few times. With picture showing Germans rushing to West side to surrender, Eastern side must be an inferno. The way that he got his 1st Luger from a decomposed dead body was .... zzzzeee
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