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Hi k98 Man: This is one time where Sid and I agree. There is no need or reason for you to apologize I actually consider myself one of the lucky ones. Perhaps one of those day's when people talk about my comrades and me they too will say they did not do it , they were just soldiers. Not likely in my ...

Knox: "I was not a Waffen-SS hero, I was just a plain Obergefreiter" you could be talking about me except I was called a Rottenfuhrer. One of those you describe "6-8 years Schule, Torfstecher, Hilfsarbeiter, Arbeitslose, ALL these simple men were recruted, onboard the SS." and fu...

Hi Sid: I was a German soldier and like to think a ordinary landser. My experience is such that I only talk about my service on this Forum because of the anonymity here. Why my two sons had a hard time at school simply for having a German father. I hate to think if they had known I was a SS man. So ...

Knox:
If your country ever sends you out to war you better hope you don't lose that war. If you do you can be sure your very own country men will come down on you like a ton of bricks followed on by your children.
Maybe you should read what you are quoting at the end of all your posts.
Gerhard

Hi Sid: I don't think military prowess is what M48 Tanker had in mind. Anybody who seen action has usually something to show for his service. In my case a couple of scars and a A under my arm and the stigma for having been a member of a criminal organization. No he means the ordinary landser who don...

Hi Sid: Trust you to cloud the issue on this topic. Nobody is talking about those risen to "heights of nobility' or the " others plumb to depths normally unimaginable". I think he is talking about the poor sucker who for some reason or other believed his leaders needed him to defend h...

Hello Rudi,
Just came across this.
Like HaEn I hope you had a very Happy Birthday. I know it's a bit belated but I will try and remember next year.
Take care and all the very best.
Gerhard

Hi EGH, Thank you for your sentiment especially as former SS men my comrades and I are automatically classified as Nazis or often war criminals. When I see celebrations like on D-Day it is very fitting that the veterans from those times deserve to be honored after all they were not there by choice r...

Hi Waffen1 Interesting that you are trying to re-enact as a grenadier of Das Reich, I wonder if I would recognize any of it. But then I only lasted about 6 Month with a 88 batterie of the 2nd Division. Originally I was a kanonier with a distance measuring gerat but when we destroyed our gun and I &q...

Hi: "Bravest of the brave" as far as I learned is only a term I saw in papers or reports and don't mean that much to me. When desperate or in seemingly hopeless situations we are all more or less brave or perhaps only stubborn. What I really consider brave were comrades, I don't remember t...

Hi HaEn, Great to hear from you. :D Like you I was fortunate too and got to work as a helper in a cook house for a unit of Royal Engineers. By a bit of luck my friend and I ended up as their cooks. Too long a story to explain how it happened. The long and short of it is there were two POWs living in...

Andre, I really don't have the time but I will answer your post in order of your response. It is uncomfortable for me but when I see these what in my opinion are either gullible or misleading statements I put my two cents in. Next, Bacque calls it murder, I am more polite - I call it wilful neglect....

Hi Andre: First off let me say I don't particular enjoy these exchanges as they only awake hatred (just look at some of the posts in this topic) and in my case painful memories. The only reason I join in is to add a little honesty. All of us have been subjected to propaganda designed to hate our ene...

Annelie, Pzrmeyer2:
Thanks and I apreciate your concern and support but you know Ivan, Tommy, Amy and friends had a go at me do you really think Sid and Co has any impact on me ?
Regards,
Gerhard

Sid: Why is it a problem when I offer a opinion outside of my personal experience ? Isn't it what you do all the time except you don't have any personal experience - period. About Bacque's "ludicrous and completely unsupported allegations" take it up with the author who wrote a rebuffal in...