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I doubt that, when it came time for the Germans to surrender, the victorious GIs would have been as trusting as you make them out to be.

Norm, You put words into my mouth and that ain't sanitary!

I have said nothing about how trusting GI's might have been. I do know that there are photo's of thousands of Germans lined up, pile of weapons on one side and magazines on the other. How else would they go about disarming these Soldiers but to trust that they would do as they were told?

There were many atrocities perpetrated by all of the participants, Axis and Allied. Plus wild and unchecked rumors..The minds of these people must have been a whirlwind of unknowns.

I would imagine surrenders to the Russian lines might have been much different than ours.