Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
Yes. The Germans fought just as bravely, just as honorably, and paid just as dearly as the Allies for the same reasons, yet they are all too often forgotten in these types of misty-eyed tributes. Not on my watch.
See, that kid in your picture is just some poor German bloke of 20(?) years old, who got pushed a rifle in his hands and was put on a train to the Somme. I got no beef with him. I hope he returned home alive, in a sufficient mental and physical state for him to be happy he was still alive too.


I do have got issues with German nationalism and the German military of the period, which was anything but honourable before, during and after WWI. But soit. Worse is their reprisal twenty years later, which was well outside the bandwith of what is considered proper conduct for even a state engaged in agressive European war. This can not be remained unsaid when remembering German victims.

Speaking of your watch - I'm sure you saw this coming - would you be so kind as to commemorate all those Red Army soldiers who fell fighting for communism, during the invasion of Germany in 1945, and commend them for their braveness and honour?