re: #48 HappyWarrior

I didn’t mean to imply that all groups had the same share of guilt. The one thing I’ve found interesting after reading about the Paris Peace Treaty is how the Nazis and Axis Powers attempted to exploit the nationalism and hurt feelings of various groups during the war. I really like to think my own family that was in Europe at the time resisted but I really have no idea obviously.

One of my grandfathers fought on the western front as well as in the east, in the Wehrmacht. He got home rather early, because of a grenade splinter in his ankle. Never got much out of him. He obviously didn’t like the east. Going through his notes, there was a really strange story about some guy in their unit who was a bedwetter and one day got taken away. Seems everybody knew where to.

My other grandfather was a member of the Reiter-SS. Which means he probably just got off easy. Never got to know him.