Same here. It got a little bitter with Germans calling captured Americans, particularly troops with German surnames—’scheiss amis’ (s*** friends).
Screw them. They always looked sharp in those snappy uniforms,
surrendering!
Well, we didn’t have Hugo Boss designing our uniforms.
One of my HS buddy’s father captured a German officer. His name was Ritter, the Kraut was von Ritter.
The conversation was rather lively and less than cordial, and ended when Mr. Ritter placed the barrel of his .45 on the center of Herr von Ritter’s forehead and suggested that he might just want to shut up...