tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post5797602664584738450..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: German Woman First To Write About Her Own Post-WW2 SufferingDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-17145149674870452262010-03-01T11:52:35.506-05:002010-03-01T11:52:35.506-05:00This is amazing stuff. I sometimes think that the ...This is amazing stuff. I sometimes think that the best history is first-person history, especially when the writer is completely unpretentious and matter-of-fact, like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/0891419195" rel="nofollow">E.B. Sledge</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-SS/dp/0966638980" rel="nofollow">Johann Voss</a>. <br /><br />Being too full of yourself tends to spoil the effect. George McClellan's autobiography is not an American classic, unlike that of U.S. Grant.Not a wine critichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962849509867116489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-42666425998024659242010-02-28T17:04:21.881-05:002010-02-28T17:04:21.881-05:00What an incredible, horrible, sad story. And how a...What an incredible, horrible, sad story. And how awful to be betrayed that way by the woman who let the soldiers know that she was there under the table. <br /><br />I hope that I would have the courage to protect anyone I could if I were in a similar circumstance, but you never know. We hope we would be brave, but thank God most of us are never tested.<br /><br />My aunt's husband and his sisters fled the Russians as they came over the hill in Prussia. I've only heard the stories of how he, who was ten years old at the time, ended up with some American soldiers and took care of their horses in exchange for food. I don't know what his sisters did. They are alive and living in South Africa, married, with children. I hope they didn't suffer the fate this woman did.the gold diggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09134199198587591427noreply@blogger.com