I'm sorry, but you embark on excursions, that hardly anyone (german) can follow anymore.
The comparisons with the German soldiers running home are certainly wrong, holding each other's hands, hugging, mutual support, etc.
That was "comradeship" ("Kameradschaft") nothing more, nothing less.
What is interpreted into these unfortunately short excerpts makes me sad, really.
The term "comradeship" back then is now a kind of "unword" here in Germany, badly used in relation to the new right-winged people.
Kamerad / Kameradschaft: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameradschaft
(Like very often, only av. in the german language, a very complexe article...)
I still talk about "comrades" ("
Kameraden") from my time as a soldier, and that was in 1978/79, as a German soldier in the Bundeswehr.
Hans
The paradise of the successful lends itself perfectly to a hell for the unsuccessful. (Bertold Brecht on Hollywood)