Munson: Hitler guard finally meets Iowa family

Des Moines Register | 6/20/2015 | Kyle Munson

[iowamark]

Gannett paper, link only:

Munson: Hitler guard finally meets Iowa family

[iowamark]

Kurt Salterberg, last surviving witness to the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, visiting US.

[jmacusa]

Screw him. The Kraut son of bitch should’ve been blown up too.

[BBell]

I’m sure you are braver than him.

[BBell]

Nice little story. Not all Germans are nuts.

[jmacusa]

He fought for and served the Nazi State you moron. I wonder how many Americans he killed.

[BBell]

I think we know who the ignorant moron is here.

[jmacusa]

Yeah, you. Obviously you’ve got a soft spot for former Nazis.

[ozzymandus]

You, sir, are an idiot.

[BBell]

Your ignorance is showing.

[jmacusa]

Another former Nazi lover. Members of my family risked their lives fighting The Germans in two world wars. Go pound salt.

[jmacusa]

Yours is glaring.

[AlaskaErik]

He fought for and served the Nazi State you moron. I wonder how many Americans he killed.

My father also fought for Germany during WWII. So did my grandfather. When you got the letter telling you that you were drafted, you went. There wasn't much you could do about it. Most WWII vets have made peace with their former enemies.

[muir_redwoods]

Members of my family risked their lives fighting the British in the late 1700s and somehow, I’ve come to terms with Eric Clapton.

[The Great RJ]

You can never be sure wat you might find when you dig into your family's roots. My father in law was adopted and my wife and her sister have spent years tracing his birth mother. About a year ago the search paid off and we located a living relative, a nephew of the birth mother. With much trepidation my wife wrote him to inquire about his aunt. He wrote back telling us he had recently learned his aunt had a baby out of wedlock who had been adopted and offered to share some family information and look for photos. We recently met with him and he shared family stories and more importantly photos.

We were astounded by the many similarities between him and my father in law. My wife's father had been adopted as an infant and had no contact with his birth mothers family yet the similarities seemed more than just coincidence or heredity. It was like having a new window into the family history.

[Hulka]

“I’ve come to terms with Eric Clapton.”

Me too, but Boy George is another matter entirely. . .

[jmacusa]

Eric Clapton wasn't shooting your ancestors. This bastard was in his early twenties 70 odd years ago killing people. He served a monster and a state and an ideology devoted to wiping Jews and other ‘’undesirables’’ off the earth and enslaving the world under the swastika flag. "Today we rule Germany. Tomorrow we rule the world!'' The generation of Germans born after the WW2 do not and should not ever be made to bear the guilt or responsibility of what their parents and grandparents did. To their credit the German people have done much to make reparations and to atone for the crimes of the previous generation. This bastard and those like him who are still drawing the breath of life DO bear the guilt and the responsibility of what they did and they DAMN WELL KNOW IT!! They're a practiced bunch of liars. “I didn't do those things’’ “I didn't know of such things’’. BS they didn't. It didn't matter even if they didn't shove some unfortunate into a gas chamber or instead they sank merchant shipping in the North Atlantic or piloted a Stuka Dive Bomber, they served the state that did and their service to that state and that ideology made the Holocaust happen. What kind of conservative, for that matter what kind of American can take an attitude such as yours towards the worst soldiers any army ever produced? Take a good look at photos of Auschwitz. Do that. And then understand that this bastard was part of that. That he was literally guarding the life of the man who made Auschwitz a reality.

[jmacusa]

Not the ones I know. Your father and grandfather served a criminal state. The worst that ever existed in the modern era. Thank God my relatives put an end to it.

[jmacusa]

And btw, the Brits came back again in 1812 and still tried to reclaim the country.

[Captain Peter Blood]

According to the article he served on the Eastern Front, doesn’t say anything else other than he was a guard at Hitler’s HQ Wolf’s Lair so I don’t know if he even served on the Western Front.

[jmacusa]

He served, do you understand that?