Yes that's really a shame. The leadership was out of control, but very often the average soldier - even SS soldiers were not all monsters. It's called "painting a picture with a very broad brush". Big Mistake.Georg wrote:
I think it´s hard for us to udnerstand what Loyalty and the kind of comradeship soldiers have, and especially those in the SS, they have for more then 60 years been treated as Paria all over the world
Georg
Rochus Misch had a unique place in history, and unfortunately even though the war ended so many years ago.. even today he's between a rock and a hard place so to speak.
I regard all veterans as our teachers. When I was younger, I used to approach ww2 veterans and have them tell me what they were willing to tell me of what they knew. I ate up anything they could say. I preferred getting my "history lessons" directly from them rather than my 3rd grade schoolbooks. Yeah I started young in my interests.