From: steve.silverwood@gmail.com
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:23 -0600, Dillon Pyron
wrote:
>There were two groups of boys who were drafted into the German Army.
>The Hitler Youth jumped up and said me too. But many boys had a fear
>that they were going to die and pushed out front as cannon fodder. The
>old men, from two autobiographies I've read, had pretty much resisted
>the "mind meld" that Hitler had worked on the rest of Germany and were
>dragged into the war.
>
>If you watch movies of the Volksweir you'll see a sad, resigned look
>on the faces of the men and either fear or excitment in the boys.
>
>When I lived in the DBR we walked through a cemetary in Bavaria and I
>was surprised to find a family burial plot with a father and four
>sons. The oldest son died in late 1944, the second on June 7, 1944.
>But the two youngest died two days apart in February, 1945, and the
>father died in early February of the same year.
>
>My father walked away and I think he cried. He went through that area
>about then.
>
>The Soviets were different. They were fighting to defend their
>country. Most of the inductees were actually women who volunteered.
>After the Winter Battalion of the Socialist Soviet People's Army
>defeated the Germans, there was little need for the Soviets to pull up
>young and old.
>
>Japan was an interesting one. Everyone just accepted thatif needed
>they would die to the last man, woman and child defending Japan. Part
>of the Bushido way of life. Which many now regret has disappeared
>from the Japanese culture.
Thanks for this information, very detailed and informative. I
appreciate the time it took to write this all out, especially the
personal insights.
-- //Steve//
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