Would You Want A Fragment Of The Bomb That Killed Part Of Your Family?

[anotheoldgit]

I'll wager that on that night in 1942, that Nazi pilot wasn't remorseful, he most likely gave the thumbs up and headed for home, yet another successful mission completed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4731558/Pensioner-given-WW2-bomb-killed-family.html

[albaqwerty]

personally, I think that is in extremely poor taste.
Insensitive.

[dannyk13]

Personally no, but he seems happy enough with it.

[jim360]

Can't be easy but he seems to be OK with it in a way that is hard to imagine.

As for the pilot, Herr Schludecker, why should it matter *now* what he was like, what he thought, on the night in question? He faced the same horrors of war as did all the British bomber pilots, and both were responsible for many personal tragedies; just because he happened to be on the losing side doesn't make him somehow less able to appreciate those horrors years on.

[Sqad]

Yes......all this happened over 70 years ago and he is a collector of WW2 memorabilia and in particular the Bath Blitz.
Yes........i would want it and would keep it with memories.

[andy-hughes]

I wouldn't - but I don't collect memorabilia, and this gentleman does, so obviously we think differently about it.

As to reactions after the war, I am sure that all participants have their own memories, and react differently and personally with hindsight. I would agree entirely with AOG's assessment that the pilot probably was happy to get home in one piece, mission accomplished, but obviously the passage of time changes viewpoints, and the chance to say sorry is one he wished to take.