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Hi Sid: This is getting repetitious, you and the evil Waffen SS. Every time we are mentioned you are up in arms, in effect you calling 5% (by your count) of the German Army war criminals. Immediately you start to list all the massacres and atrocities which happened during the war. Also you will not ...

Hi Reb, nice to see somebody actually reads my posts and understands what I am trying to say and for once I don't end up in the middle of an argument. I especially did like the last bit of your post - "Its up to us as civilians to keep a hand on those damn fools who govern us and its up to us t...

Hi Quist, maybe I am a little confused. All this was 60 years ago and I find it difficult to remember names, dates and numbers. What I remember, in the fall of 1943 after finishing basic and gun training we were sent as replacements to the 2nd Panzer Division which was part of the II SS Panzer Corps...

Hi Sid: Like all our previous discussions this is getting tiresome and pointless. I am going to answer your post once more and hope to get it straight this time. My opinion can not be that biased, I left Germany 59 years ago in a cattle car and had no contact with Germany other then fruitless inquir...

Hi Sid, Of course those men were not my "immediate comrades"! but comrades never the less. My first 6 or 7 Month after training was spent as kanonier in Russia with the 2nd division. As the remnants of that division was part of the 1st Panzer Corps that memorial includes them too. Otherwis...

Hi Sid, I guess it's pointless to debate any of those topics with you. We both have a agenda, yours is to accuse and blame and mine is as you say defend " the personal records of you, or your immediate comrades". Which includes the 20,000 men of the I SS Panzer Korps. Besides a little hone...

Hi Sid, "I will just repeat that membership of the Waffen-SS was never considered a war crime and this was established at Nuremburg. It required a specific act to cause someone to be tried for a war crime. Secondly, what really condemns the Waffen-SS, as an institution, is that it was many time...

Hi Rudi & HaEn,
nice to see you are still around.
All the best to you both and keep going.
For the last poster.
You are right about our ages. Myself I am 78 and counting and like a fellow Forum member said - it certainly has not been boring.
Gerhard

I am sick to death of this subject, in the absence of honesty it will never be resolved I think fortunately you are all young enough to be able to say "my hands are clean or I was not there". Of course it's unthinkable that the Allies, all of them, were as inhuman and bloodthirsty as Hitle...

Achilles, Read my posts again, all my posts. I don't make excuses, opinion and explanations of things I know/saw, sure. The most fitting statement in this topic I made was: "Perhaps we can agree that when we are governed by evil people and swayed by propaganda we are all more or less capable of...

Hi Sid, This entire discussion has deteriated to what I call Nit-Picking. Here are my thoughts on the matter: The victims of Dresden or those of Coventry and all the many other places, if you could ask them, care very little about the reason for their fate. The air man, like me when on the V2s follo...

Annelie, What makes you think anyone would take any notice what I say ? A former SS man and member of a V2 rocket launching unit to boot ? It usually start's off I state my opinion and add a little of what I experienced. Most of the time it ends up by someone saying "prove it" or a tirade ...

A poster some time ago said it best when talking about a subject nobody was able to agree on. There is my account - yours and somewhere in the middle - THE TRUTH. Naturely when you say it, you are a Patriot and Defender of the Righteous and my words make me a Revisionist and Nazi. This does not have...

Doc I joined this discussion when seeing ridiculous statements and to inject a little common sense. It happened, numbers are really not that important. I usually see it as a number times death and pain. It is far more important to remember it as like so many other happenings, a travesty dreamed up b...

Doc If I come across as having a "slight persecution complex" that is certainly not my intent, maybe it's my English. Also I did not know them as Mossies, I knew them as Jabo's. Silver = English, blue = American and invisible = German. That's how we saw them. When talking about Dresden my ...