Good points there. There was also a movie made a few years after World War II where the story was an American Officer who basically fostered a Jewish orphan while using his spare time to find his mother. Eventually, they do find his mother but in the movie are a lot of longshots of block and block of rubble in the city they were in, ot looked very Twilight to me. It took place just after VE Day.
I just can't remember the title.
BTW, there were a lot of ad hoc projects to "help" the Volksturm to fight like the "People's Rifle" and so on. One of our insurance agents, he passed on, but he served in the Wehrmacht in World War II at the very end. He was kept out of service because he was color blind but in the end days, he was drafted and given a weapon out of a museum, something like a '73 Winchester, to fight with. He wrote a book and told his story, very interesting. It is called "From the Snow Fields of Moscow to the Cornfield of Iowa" and his name was Kurt Willibald. At first when I said he fought in World War II, I thought it was on our side but when he said he was in the Wehrmacht, my ears really perked up because it is an interesting thing to hear the view from the other side.
Chuck M.
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