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“how could a civilized nation run concentration camps and murder millions, and still fight for that way of life? how could a man fight for a nation that broke up millions of families that put old women and little children to work in slave-labor lagers? the third reich was a cancer on the face of western man.”

“what a fate: to gasp your life out all alone in the mud of a dirty little creek, helpless to hold off the slow death that is inside you and the quicker death that is walking up on you on the other side of the water. a death without love, a death without hope. god, who invented war?”

“I would have shot him if I had had the chance. I had more against peacock than I ever had against the germans, who, after all, were just soldiers doing what they had to do.”

holy shit 💀 they really hated him LMFAO

“I wished that I had not come, that I had not joined the army and volunteered for the paratroops and gotten to know so many men who had died and so many others who might die later.”

gonna finish this chapter later 🫶🏻 looking forward to finally reading his book!