My friend’s father served in WWII (I never met him). He was in the Signal Corp. The father was Jewish, but he worse an SS ring he took of a dead German for the rest of his life.
I can remember a lot of stuff around peoples homes that GI’s fought back I don’t know anyone any more that displays only to it. I thought it was interesting how many weapons were brought back by those GI’s, poor security I guess :-)
My dad brought home a pair of Zeiss binoculars, a German Mauser K98, and some gruesome photographs of hundreds of dead Jewish people, some piled up.