Many soldiers, it seems, harbor no ill will towards the foot soldiers on the other side. Not after peace, when time and distance have given them perspective. They see each other as comrades, in a way. People who shared an experience that only they can fully understand, regardless of the uniform they were wearing. Not an SS colonel certainly, he would not be viewed as another guy just doing his job in a horrible situation. But another tank gunner? sure. To find one you actually fought a battle against one on one, wow. And on top, the mystery of the staff car and the fact that it was all filmed. One in a million story.
Haunted by two men on both sides. Our enemy today is haunted that the didn’t kill more women.
“Many soldiers, it seems, harbor no ill will towards the foot soldiers on the other side. Not after peace, when time and distance have given them perspective.”
My hardscrabble farmer uncle Harry was Army in the Pacific and he was a POW in a Japanese camp for most of the war. He hated the Japanese until the day he died; and that was in the 80s. God rest his soul, he spent the the bulk of the war in a living hell.