tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post2619026262260818711..comments2024-03-26T20:24:07.900+01:00Comments on Stabswache de Euros - Cerrar el cielo: 2.ϟϟ-Panzerdivision „Das Reich“ (Unternehmen Lüttich)Robert Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10858091160498927131noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-73931762014780650562021-11-07T11:19:00.666+01:002021-11-07T11:19:00.666+01:00Regarding the killing of surrendered/captured enem...Regarding the killing of surrendered/captured enemy personnel, David Websters book parachute infantry recounts an incident where a kubelwagen drove onto their lines in Normandy. The medic was pulled out and shot, the two patients dumped on the road to die, and the car put to use. I recall another paratrooper account of a, "junior" who shot surrendering germans without breaking stride. You can understand how many men were reluctant to talk about the war in the years after, with time to reflect in better days, im sure the memory doing such things, even while in the theater of war, wasnt something some fellas were comfortable with in later life.Nollaig Mac Carthaignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-89430502361131892852021-02-12T23:36:31.872+01:002021-02-12T23:36:31.872+01:00The trooper in white shirt standing next to Victor...The trooper in white shirt standing next to Victoria Cross winner Major David Currie is identified as R.J. Lowe of "C" Squadron. He has been described as a quiet confident man never bragging about his accomplishments. Instead, he was very careful about which wartime memories he shared. No, these Canadian war heroes did not talk much about the murdering of German prisoners of war in France. If Captain Siegfried Rauch had been an American officer and the Canucks been Germans this photo would have been one of the most famous photographs from the Normandy Campaign.Bob Newlandsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-47402553565483977442020-08-07T16:20:00.652+02:002020-08-07T16:20:00.652+02:00"I was not treated by the U.S. soldiers as a ..."I was not treated by the U.S. soldiers as a German officer with the highest awards; instead, I was treated as a criminal of the worst sort. Hit, kicked, my money stolen. I was constantly hit in the head with rubber truncheons. I was a witness to the execution of 12 SS prisoners." Contents of a sworn statement by the Das Reich veteran and recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and the Close Combat Clasp in Gold SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schmelzer, dated July 8, 1946. It was submitted at a US prisoner-of-war camp at Darmstadt, intended for submission to the International Military Tribunal. Schmelzer was released on February 27, 1947 and resettled in his home town Nesselröden. He became a member of the town council and was later elected mayor and reelected several times.KFJ Roßmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-48426924832916311602020-03-30T20:06:08.357+02:002020-03-30T20:06:08.357+02:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-4467899467128036702020-03-26T01:19:52.831+01:002020-03-26T01:19:52.831+01:00Must have been hard for them and thousands of othe...Must have been hard for them and thousands of others getting on with life post-1945.John Downeynoreply@blogger.com