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Old November 30th, 2006, 09:04 PM
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bloody tabloid daily mail. i just can't take an article which refers to a fighting german soldier as a nazi seriously ("the young trooper knocked out three heavily-armoured German Tiger tanks - including one containing the 30-year-old Nazi..."). Even supposing Wittmann was a self-declared nazi (which i have never seen any proof of), his political views are in my opinion totally irrelevant in this article, since wittmann was first and foremost a soldier who didn't have anything to do with politics, and the article is about his death on the battlefield. i wouldn't be surprised if the "professional" writers at the daily mail are confusing the waffen-SS with the einsatzgruppen... Not taking any credit from ekins's remarkable deed, i also think he could show a little more respect to the greatest tank-ace that ever lived.
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