[Gritty]

We also had a number of ex-German soldiers in our services who served in WWII, mostly from the the Wehrmacht or Luftwaffe and not the SS. Some were in our Special Forces, others in other areas. I can recall one German Sergeant who I had as an instructor in one of my Survival Schools who had fought years on the Russian Front and had been a Russian prisoner, but fortunately escaped before being sent to Siberia or the Caucasus. This was in the mid-60s.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We had a math teacher who was an ex-German soldier on the Russian front. He had suffered a gun shot wound in his upper leg. He had married a Japanese woman and had taken her family name; Yajima. I always wondered if he was hiding out in Yokohama.