Battlefields of Kaprolat and Hasselmann

[bearhunter]

Yeah, that was 55 years ago. There were also a bunch of allied prisoners that were picked up by the Russians when they captured POW camps, many of them were never heard from again. There were some discrete inquiries made to the Russians, the Russians denied ever seeing them. A few escaped and got back with Gulag tales but no one had the inclination to follow up on it. Supposedly they kept thousands of men from different allied nations.

I have relatives that went missing during WWII. No, it doesn't bother me one way or the other where their bodies are. There's nothing I can do to change their destiny. No one else cares what happened to them and would rather just forget the whole thing happened and get on with life. That's what's supposed to happen. Let it go and get on with things. If you're especially interested in your family history, well that's another thing. I could see the home governments of these soldiers returning the dog tags to a surviving family member, if one is found accidentally or on an expedition, other than that, case closed. Leave the bodies where they lie.

The Norwegian government isn't the only one that shies away from this stuff. It's an incredibly time consuming and expensive task, with very little to be gained.

There should be some mysteries in life. It makes life more interesting. If they find Uncle Bob or Grandpa, after 60 years, no more mystery. Now you know you don't have any mythical relatives on the Russian steppes when they decided to start new families with Russian babushkas. It has to stop some where. I sure wouldn't want my family passing the grief down for generations. There are to many good things in life to dwell upon.

 

[kjohn]

Very well said.

X2. Having been born in a nice, safe little town in Saskatchewan in 1947, I couldn't begin to know what it would feel like being invaded by a murderous army and watching my parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors and others being shot down like skunks, then having men from my own country joining up to do more of the same. I have done a fair bit of studying WWII, mostly because my Mom's four brothers and my aunt's five children all wore uniforms of the Canadian Military during that conflict.

Forgiveness is wonderfully easy, especially when no direct association with the deed to be forgiven is evident. I suffer a heavy heart when I think of how some millions had to deal with total chaos and destruction for so many years. I, for one, won't be donating any money to help bury the SS Norwegians.

 

[snowhunter]

Many of these norwegian SS soldiers had first fought the invading germans as members of the official norwegian army, and when captured, they change side, and then jumped into german SS uniforms, and gave their alligiance not only to Vidkun Quisling, but to Adolf, and then ended their alligiance to Nazi Germany with the words, SO HELP ME GOD...

Looks like some fine works of the german propaganda apperatus, against some very gullible norwegians.

German SS officers, with the support of the pimping norwegian Vidkun Quisling government, also sired over 50.000 pure arians, but normal children, in Norway, which for most part were placed in mental institutions after WW2....