Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My local Leica repairman, Ralph Holsinger, was a radar tech who stayed in
Germany right after WWII. The winter of 1945 was gruesome ("grausam" is even
a better word for what the German situation was like). Ralph would take his
M1 carbine to a former Nazi game preserve, wait for a big deer to show up,
kill it and tow it with his jeep over the frozen roads to the nearest
village. They were suspicious of American soldiers, so he would just leave
it in the deserted town square. After he left, villagers would butcher and
share the fresh meat. Young Ralph, with a big heart and old-fashioned
marksmanship probably kept a few Germans from starving that winter.
Gary Todoroff
It was the intersection of two very different worlds. For the victors, they
could get most things easily especially if you were a GI. For the vanquished
it
was a completely different world.
Peter Dzwig
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