[17th Miss Regt]

I noticed a couple of vehicles full of Waffen-SS troops. After the Malmedy massacre we were not too well disposed towards them, but at this point of the war their only real choice was to surrender to the Americans because, as you said, the Russians would not have treated them very ‘kindly’?

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Towards the end of the war they were taking any warm body they could get for manpower to fill those ranks, even foreigners. The fanatical ideologues were few and far between by then.