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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Or to put it another way, "trying to establish the facts".
I agree but in the German section of the forum it's Germans that we tend to discuss.
There is no question that Rudel was a physcially brave man but his own book left me in no doubt that he was an unrepentant Nazi. He may have been a hero in National Socialist Germany but citizens of democracies are entitled to take a more detached view.
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And what's the alternative...?
Being a "numbers next to men's names fetishist hero-worshipper?"
Not bothering to examine the events of 8th February 1945 just because we might reveal the truth about something?