Reply To: My grandfathers war diary 39 – 45

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What a priceless treasure, worth infinitely more to modern historians than rambling propaganda works such as Churchill’s 3 volumes.  His personal experience as a family person as well as his military role is just what people want to know.

He probably wasn’t a ‘baddie’ as the huns/boche/fritz/kraut terms were designed to suggest, just an ordinary man fighting for his country in an honourable way who was on the losing side (of both war and therefore history).  We need to be able to normalise such individuals, both within our families but also across society; such mundane, day to day documented experiences help.