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Originally Posted by Arclight I see how it is.  | Oh sorry I read it and it is interesting. Quote: |
The german soldier was never replaced. He kept fighting until he was either killed or became invalid or was captured or until the last day of world war 2. Injured soldiers which recovered returned to their units and kept fighting. As german fighter pilot ace Gunther Rall (275 kills) said in an interview many years after world war 2, such endless combat activity simply meant that "It was either the iron cross or the wooden cross" - a medal or a grave.
| I would imagine this would after a while become a rather morbid and grim reality for many experienced German troops.
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If horses would have hands and could paint with their hands and create works of art like the humans, then horses would form and paint the gods with the shape of horses and they would build sculptures according to their own bodies.
- Xenophanes
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