He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on December 2, 1914. He was also awarded the Bavarian Military Medal, 3rd class, with a bar, and later the Iron Cross, 1st class. He received, as did all wounded soldiers, the Cross of Military Merit.
In this case, I would not have lived to read it. I would not have been trapped in a futile attempt to thank you enough. I always wondered what I would once tell my grandfather when I eventually meet him in Valhalla. Yeah, I will tell him: ‘Grandpa, I know what really happened. I understand what you had to go through. I will always love you because everything was explained to me by the great Michael-Patrick Walsh
‘I have read innumerable written source materials concerning Adolf Hitler over the last 70 years. Witness to History is the most compelling. It provides a realistic overview of the Third Reich in print. This is because its events are told by those who made them.’ ~ Marc Roland
“I SHOULD LIKE to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Adolf Hitler. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs.
From the looting and sadistic ill-treatment of the defenceless population by the Allied troops and control of officials, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians and Americans, to the despicable display of troglodyte beastliness in the Nuremberg Trials, where Englishmen, Frenchmen and Americans sank to the level of Russian prosecutors in a ‘Great Purge’ trial, and committed the extra infamy of pretending that the proceedings were ‘legal’ and ‘just’.
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