Short time ago, read an old book that its author had written about his personal experiences fighting in WWII by a guy who was from the Alsace region of France. This region of France in its past history was sometimes German controlled, sometimes French controlled. His mother was German, his father was French. Anyway, he joined the German army during WWII and served in an elite German division on the Eastern Front.
g5m wrote, "it was indescribable, just awful." Well, the author of book I read, did a darn good job of recalling his experiences serving on the eastern front in the German army for most of the war fighting the Russians. Talk about a hell he lived through. Small wonder he quickly surrendered to U.S. troops on the western front. He'd been wounded four or so times on the eastern front, his division was basically wiped out by the Russians, and he'd ended up in a German unit on the western front fighting U.S. troops.
When his American captors realized he was French, he was turned over to the Free French army to deal with. After listening to his story, the Free French released him to return to the Alsace and his father and mother......he'd been thru too much already.
