Its sad you have to make a disclaimer to speak history.

I wish there was more German documentaries on ww2. 2 sides to a coin. This is history and not glorification.

PTSD must of been rife, absolutely no help. I read once that ww1 and ww2 can be directly linked to the spike in serial killers in the 50s, up to the 80s. The book stated that it believed that many service men came back with PTSD and often the children would be on the recieving end of it, behind closed doors.

I know he got beaten in North Africa, but disagreeing with Rommel about tanks in 1944 is like disagreeing with Tiger Woods about golf in 2001.

"If you see a black plane it's British, if you see a white plane it's American, if you see nothing at all it's the Luftwaffe."

My great grandpa landed on Utah Beach, I just recently visited there and wrote his name on a wall of veteran names. He died in 2002.

"You know those 5000 ships the enemy Doesn't Have? Well, they're here!"

“If you see nothing at all it’s the luftwaffe”

“The Canadians secured their objectives”

The Canadians probably captured their objectives so quickly because they politely asked.

I've read both volumes of "D Day Through German Eyes" and would recommend them.

Noone ever speaks of all the awesome nazi sandcastles the allies trampeled on the beach that day.

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