75 years after D-Day, a former German soldier is worried for Europe

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'With Trump it is not easy,' says Paul Golz, 95, who was serving in the German army when D-Day brought an end to World War II.

Seventy-five years after D-Day, the world is once again a troubling place to a former German soldier who was on the losing side of the cataclysmic clash that hastened the end of World War II.

But as the leaders of the Free World prepare to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Golz said he fears a fraying of the alliances that were created in the wake of the war, alliances that brought peace and stability to Europe. And he has deep misgivings about the leadership of President Donald Trump. Never mind that Golz himself became a refugee after the war when Pomerania, a region on the southern Baltic coast where his family ran a farm, was returned to Poland and the Germans were expelled.

Once he was better, Golz was assigned to 91st Air Infantry Division and dispatched to Normandy where the troops were literally dug in near the Cherbourg heights. Golz said he returned to his unit, which had been ordered to march toward the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, some three hours away. But en route, Golz said, they were ordered to head to another town.Starved and thirsty, Golz said at one point he wandered off into a field in search of sustenance when he saw something moving.It was a downed parachutist. His face was covered with camouflage paint, but he was unlike any man Golz had ever encountered before.Golz said the soldier was trembling.

“And then we saw that he had a golden ring with a stone on his right hand,” Golz said. “Schneider tried to pull it off, but could not get it off. So, he said he would cut off his fingers. I said, ‘If you cut off his fingers, I will blow you away.’” They were taken first to a prisoner of war camp in Scotland. Then, after a time, they were shipped across the ocean to New York City on a ship called the Queen Mary 1. From there, Golz said they were taken by train to West Virginia and a POW camp where they were treated more like guests than prisoners.

Golz said that, when he was asked at age 16 which branch of the service he should sign up for, his older brother, who had already fought in Ukraine, had advised him not to join the Gestapo.But Golz said he was not aware of what his fellow Germans had done to the Jews and Poles and countless others until he saw the footage. He said his captors were surprised when he told them he did not know what happened in places like Auschwitz, Dachau or Sachsenhausen.

 

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He should be more worried about the german nation and the millions of muslims that have turned germany into the rape capital of the world .

To quote my dear MaggieThatcher 🇬🇧🇺🇸 please interview an American WW2 veteran who shares this opinion with this German. They don't exist.

I think it easy... Great ACCOMPLISHMENTS!

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