This may not be new to you, but a good read on WW2 incident.
12-09-2012, 09:02 AM
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This may not be new to you, but a good read on WW2 incident.
12-09-2012, 01:18 PM
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RE: This may not be new to you, but a good read on WW2 incident.
I used to work with a man who was in the Vermacht during WWII.
He told me that many in the German army did not like fighting Americans
for the Nazis but were so afraid of the repurcussions of the SS against them and
their families they felt they had no choice.
Happy flyin', Oscar
12-10-2012, 09:38 PM
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RE: This may not be new to you, but a good read on WW2 incident.
I worked for a guy for several years who had been shot down over Italy and spent the rest of the war in a German prison camp. He really never had much bad to say about the Germans. In fact, he actually talked pretty fondly of them.
12-11-2012, 09:37 AM
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Interesting story:
My father, a WWII naval aviator, became a professional forester. One evening, when I was 12 or so, he had several colleagues over to the house for dinner. All were WWII vets, and one was a German fellow over here studying the way the US Forest Service was handling some sort of tree disease.
Another of the men had been a bombardier in B-24s in Italy. He too was shot down, by flak, and spent the rest of the war as a POW. The German fellow had spent the war as a member of a gun crew on an 88mm AA cannon. They got to comparing notes, telling stories, etc., and deduced that it was quite possible that the German guy's gun (or the battery his gun was in) was the one that shot down the other fellow's B-24!
What are the odds of THAT? They were all gentlemen about it, but I remember my mother was sucking wind when that tidbit came up; she knew my dad HATED the Japs with a passion, and didn't realize that, with some glaring exceptions, many of the Germans had actually been quite civilized in that war.
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My father, a WWII naval aviator, became a professional forester. One evening, when I was 12 or so, he had several colleagues over to the house for dinner. All were WWII vets, and one was a German fellow over here studying the way the US Forest Service was handling some sort of tree disease.
Another of the men had been a bombardier in B-24s in Italy. He too was shot down, by flak, and spent the rest of the war as a POW. The German fellow had spent the war as a member of a gun crew on an 88mm AA cannon. They got to comparing notes, telling stories, etc., and deduced that it was quite possible that the German guy's gun (or the battery his gun was in) was the one that shot down the other fellow's B-24!
What are the odds of THAT? They were all gentlemen about it, but I remember my mother was sucking wind when that tidbit came up; she knew my dad HATED the Japs with a passion, and didn't realize that, with some glaring exceptions, many of the Germans had actually been quite civilized in that war.
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12-11-2012, 10:48 AM
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RE: This may not be new to you, but a good read on WW2 incident.
My was US ARMY MP and a guard for POW Officers in Crossville Tenn. He always said that very few of the officers he came in contact would claim to be NAZIs.
Even after he had a serious "chat " with them .
The number was so surprising small.
The US ARMY guards had a little song they sang . I hope I get the words right.
"Each and every german loves to dance and sing the " I was not a NAZI" polka" .
But you get the point.
Even after he had a serious "chat " with them .
The number was so surprising small.
The US ARMY guards had a little song they sang . I hope I get the words right.
"Each and every german loves to dance and sing the " I was not a NAZI" polka" .
But you get the point.
