I hope Herr Severloh will come to peace with what he did. He committed no sin. He was a soldier and he did a soldier’s duty, even if his country was in the wrong. I am certain that God and the men he killed will not hold that devotion to duty against him on the Last Day.
Yes, the Nazi state was evil, but no more so than was our “glorious” Soviet ally. Herr Severloh and thousands like him were in many ways just as much victims of Hitler’s foul reign as anyone else. Sometimes I think that the world would have been better had the Nazis won on the Eastern Front...
People sometimes forget that the dead and wounded are not the only casulaties of war. How this guy must have suffered during his 43 years of self-imposed hell!
Herr Severloh (and the moral-relativist turds on this board) can rot in Hell. He could have surrendered, retreated, moved to another area, anything other than what he did. He can also stew a bit more for all eternity in face of the fact that most of the Germans captured on D-day and following days were summarily exeucuted, thanks in part to the ruthlessness of Herr Severloh’s ‘achievments’ at Omaha.