Reply To: Remembering D-Day and the difficulty of being a German

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Oh and I might just add that my grandfather was with the Luftwaffe in WW II as anti air gunner. I still have his war diary somewhere and his Luftwaffe dagger. After the war he was one of the first to be employed in the Bundeswehr Luftwaffe and stayed there until retirement as Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel if translation is correct?). And whenever asked he would talk about the war, the people and everything that happened during and after the war. Sadly he’ s not with us any more. Also my brother and I did military service (he’s a Leutnant (lieutenant) and I stayed at a lower rank… it was easy living as Hauptgefreiter (lance corporal))