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my father POW (1940-45) had a very German view of the history of the war for rather obvious reasons -( jude law and Gates of Stalingrad - I knew all about Zaitsev fifty years ago - big deal story in the German press)
He accepted the German view that Leuven had been burnt as they thought there was an allied counterattack - the burning of the library was later counted as a war-crime. Part of kulturkamof
Part 1 of the Great War 1964 - he exclaimed in real time
'God they filmed it ! the burning of the university. it was meant to be all a great mistake!'
so surprisingly things were filmed
A few days ago AOG had a thread on Bunkirk
and Le paradis massacre. Initial report by Private Pooley disbelieved by British Officer who could not believe Germans would do such a thing. In fact an SS officer had sent a report to Berlin about a pile of machine gunned brits who clearly hadnt died in the field - and then the SS officer said - oh er there must have been a field court martial and summary execution or something
so surprising things are recorded in war