[CWOJackson]

It's a shame we didn't impose france on germany as part of war reparations.

[VOA]

"We Germans have been depicted merely as the occupiers of France. In fact many French
people became our friends.

Two neighbors united in a common quest to answer "The Jewish Question".

So happy together!

[AlbertWang]

Why are the streets in Paris lined with trees?

So the Nazis can march in the shade.

[vbmoneyspender]

Mrs Lemaire said last week. "They were not all barbarians and not all the French were in the Resistance.

Yeah, we know.

[jackbill]

He recalled one French woman boasting that she would marry a German soldier. "She said, 'After the war I will be Frau Koch, and I'm proud about that,"' he said.

Hopefully, she had her head shaved at the end of the war.

And hopefully, Mr. Koch didn't live to see the end of the war.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"Whenever I return here I am overcome with emotion," he said. "I know that the Germans were on the wrong side but I feel that I owe it to my fallen comrades to revisit this place and remember that we all suffered terribly as well."

I think the war-oriented pictures I remember the most are the ones of enemies from years past sitting down and having a nice chat.

I've always found those scenes comforting.

[CatoRenasci]

The English are right when they say (thinking primarily of the French) WOGS begin at Calais.

[God luvs America]

This has been known through history...I've watched documentaries where the frogs have said they were not happy with all the pre-bombing prior to the invasion, Ambrose mentions in his book "Band of Brothers" Easy Company found the frogs ungrateful in '44 and the frogs justified surrendering giving up to the Nazi's by saying "Socialism (germany) is better than communism (Russia).

I myself was at the D-Day museum in Caen the final day of my honeymoon in 7/2000 and they have an authentic telephone recording in which a french government official promises to immediately surrender paris to germany if the nazi's stop bombing the frogs beloved architecture.

[RobbyS]

Reminding me of a story that our grocer told my Dad and me. It was about 1955. He had been a paratrooper on D-Day and had come down in the night separated from the rest of his platoon. During the folliwing morning, he met with other troopers, most from other units, and the group, led by a captain, started down the road to an objective marked on the captain's map. After awhile they saw two troopers hanging in the trees in a field. They found each man dead, with his throat cut crudly inplement. They cut the men down and buried them in shallow graves. They then noticed a farm house nearby. They went over and kicked in the door. Several men were sitting around the table. They froze when they saw the Americans. The two led soldiers looked to the captain. He nodded, and they shot them all. No one said a word as they resumed their march. That night the grocer asked another guy: Did they do it? The other guy shrugged. And that. said the grocer to me and my Dad, is why I hate the French.

[STFrancis]

Gockel was actually in an A&E special I saw the other day. A American, Brit and him got together at Omaha and talked about their experiences. He comes across as a genuine guy who did his duty. No more, no less.

[John Jorsett]

The fact is that people are people, and the occupying troops weren't necessarily seen as representative of their oppressive government. I spoke to a woman in Norway who talked fondly of a German soldier named Otto whom she had become friends with as a child during the occupation. She greatly regretted that when Germany pulled out he was sent to perish on the Russian front. I don't doubt that bonds formed between some of the Germans and some of the French. That's just how it is.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This moron STILL believes der Fuhrer's BS 60 years later. But there is a grain of truth to his words. The Allies freed France and they have never forgiven us for it.

[Verginius Rufus]

John Keegan in his book Fields of Battle talks about his experiences as a student in France not long after the end of WWII. He says that the landowners who suffered property damage in the battle for Normandy complained constantly about the damage and that "stringent anti-Americanism" was "de rigueur at almost every level of French society."

A fine book with some amazing errors--for example, he says that Bent's Fort, founded in 1833 in present-day Colorado, was visited by President Thomas Jefferson (who died in 1826, of course, and never traveled west of the Appalachian Mountains).

[F.J. Mitchell]

Too damn bad we didn't know that before so much young American blood was spilled, saving the French surrender monkeys against their wills!

[longtermmemmory]

So begins the revisionist history of the left's version of D-Day. It all the USA's fault. Nevil Chamberlain was right.

[F16Fighter]

Mr Gockel is troubled by more, however. "D-Day is remembered almost exclusively from the Allied point of view," he said. "We Germans have been depicted merely as the occupiers of France.

Gockel should be thankful he wasn't summarily executed for murderously machine-gunning Lord knows how many young American liberators on the beaches of Normandy.

Instead, today, 60 years later, he has the gall to whine about being "troubled" by Germany's role as occupier and the allies role as liberators regarding D-Day?

Eff Herr Gockel, and eff the French.

[BenLurkin]

"Sand sculpture : A sand sculpture representing soldiers landing on a beach sits in Vierville-sur-mer, which was known as Omaha beach on D-Day." (AFP/Mychele Daniau)

[jnarcus]

Gee what a dufus!!! The reason that DDay is viewed from the Allies point of view is cause it was our operation and we were busy kicking NAZI butt out of conquered lands. The fact that there were collaborators only says the French are fundamentally cowards. I really am sick to death of the European sensibilties that allow for things like the Holocast but are offended when freedom is defended

[VaBthang4]

Geez...old man just die already.

[hemogoblin]

This article seems to serve the growing purpose of trying to turn the whole world against the U.S.

It's fascinating though. I wonder if Herr Gockel would have preferred to serve on Ze Eastern Front, where there was some SERIOUS payback going on for those wholesome German lads.