Re: What About German Officers
My father was in the 506th PIR-jumped into Holland and France-We had pics he took af a concentration camp they liberated-piles and stacks of corpses. He was in Austria for a time after the war and guarded Kesselring for a time-said it was all he could do to keep from butt-stroking the arrogant bastard.
He hated Germans til the day he died in 1956. There were some letters he wrote home that said "they should take a couple of these damn krauts out every day and shoot them."
Sometimes we fail to appreciate that 99% of all soldiers would have preferred not to have had to be soldiers. They simply rose to the occaision.
MikeP-
Remembering a few of them tonight-memories I would prefer not to have.
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