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i have quite a few amazing true war stories, German war stories, that i have collected from various old people, relatives of friends, handed-down tales told to them as young boys by their great-grandfathers, etc etc.....
some of them are pretty amazing.....dont know if anyone here wants to hear such tales of glory, as they are from a German perspective, and involve fighting the russian enemy and fighting to hold back the allies of the west......still some very amazing tales.....wouldnt believe some of them myself, if they hadnt been told to me by old men in wheelchairs, most of who are "nodding off" in the head with their old age, but ask them about the war, and they suddenly become energetic and remember everything from that time as clear as if it happened yesterday.....
for example.......ask me about the story from the man in Eberstadt, who's remodeling work we always do, about the gold.......took the 600 man crew three days to carry aboard, working night and day with no rest allowed........in the end he was one of three men out of over 100 that survived the blast, after 5 days in the water with the sharks, north of Australia.....
or how about how my boss's grandfather's brother was at Stalingrad, and had to follow orders and be shot by his boyhood friend, so that he could leave on a transport aircraft for the wounded, even though he wanted to be the one who sacrificed himself to save his friend.......sticks were drawn every morning and every evening, by men in groups of three......the one who won got to be shot and live and go back to Germany, while the other two had to flip a coin to decide who has to be the shooter....he wanted to stay behind and let his friend be the one to go, but orders were strict, that the results of the lotto be followed, no matter what......he never saw his friend again, who froze to death on the front there at Stalingrad.....he was posthumously granted the Iron Cross Second Class, which was the only thing the family ever got back after he left to fight......
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