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Thank you, MPN, for your observations and, Walter, I sit back in my chair somewhat awestruck, each time I read one of your posts.
I once had a work colleague who had served with the Waffen SS.
He was a Czech who had been conscripted and found himself on the Eastern Front.
One freezing day, which had not gone too well, he'd taken shelter in a railway hut.
He's sitting there, taking stock of things, when in walked this huge Russian soldier - a woman.
Not only that, but she was equipped with a burp-gun and didn't look too happy.
Oh, dear.
Well, as it turned out, she was in much the same position as him.
But .. he, somehow, had managed to get hold of some bread and she had found a bottle of wine.
They sat together for about an hour, without a common language, and, after that, took their leave of each other and
left that shelter, wishing one another "bon chance".
That's true, as he told it to me - and I had no reason to think he was a bullsitter.
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Last edited by Stanwell; 6th Aug 2016 at 11:12.