Just had to say, my old man flew fighter escort on some of the thousand-bomber raids that destroyed Hamburg and Cologne, and I’m proud that he did. It was worth any price to eradicate the Nazis.
I grew up in a town that was aout 30% Jewish. It was not unusual to see parents, grand-parents, uncles, aunts, etc. at my friends houses who had the tattood fore-arms.
In 1979 I was commissioned to write a short fund-raiser film for the Holocaust Musuem. I interviewed a number of survivors who had spent their childhoods in the 'care' of Jumper's buddies.
There's nothing like hearing a woman tell the story of being sodomized by a guard at the age of nine...of killing another girl with a knife at the age of eleven so that she could steal a potato to give to her sick sister (who was gassed a month later anyway). An eleven year old murdering another child for a potato --- one of Herr Jumper's "hungry mouths to feed" that the Germans were so afraid of.
These people told me all I ever need to know about Herr Jumper's poor mis-understood compadres.
God bless your old man for his service. And it is a shame you had to read anything disparaging regarding his duties in WWII; although it did come from a nitwit who claimed “Hitler, having been wounded by Gas in WWI, renounced it’s use in WWII”. Yeah, the World’s Number One Zyklon B customer proclaimed as The Great Poison Gas Renouncer. Ya can’t make this junk up....