Second World War Tiger Tank Veterans meet British Tank Men | The Tank Museum
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Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)
Published: Fri Aug 04 2017
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Must shake your hand if you fought in Kursk!
The chap seated on the right, with all the medals is Ken Tout. He's written 2 books about his experiences fighting in Sherman tanks in WW2.
It's interesting how the German veterans can't really take any pride or attach any value in their medals when the British veterans do.
As a British person myself I wouldn't lose any respect for the German veterans if they did wear their medals. Ultimately they provided service for their country regardless of whether it was for the right or wrong reason. It's not really their fault or choice as they were conscripted and doing what the government thought was necessary / right.
It also looks like the German's suffered more than the British did when it comes to what they saw, witnessed and suffered with.
It's beautiful how they have so much respect for each other and are so anti-war and want nothing more than love and peace.
Very cool. My grandpa was a supply officer in the German 6th Army. After the war, enemies become friends and life goes on.
I worked on a documentary about the Arandora Star (ww2 ship sunk with a load of POW onboard) was fascinating and life changing at the same time. I'll never forget interviewing my ex's grandfather and seeing a 80 something year old man sob about losing his friends.
Both my grandparents were in Normandy and Holland, but they had real bad PTSD so aside from drunken rage fits I didn't get much out of them before they passed.
I could have listened to these men talk for hours.
The tremendous respect they have for one another is amazing. Thought there would be some ill will between the sides.
I’ve spoken to veterans of a few wars before and of all them WW2 and Korean War vets are the most humble and anti-war group I’ve talked to. Most people who were in wars do not feel we should be in wars and shouldn’t threaten to go to wars, but I think in modern wars it’s a different experience. People who come back from Middle East wars hate war most of the time, but still feel like there was a justified reason for being there it seems like. But you get a much larger variety of experiences out of those more recent wars. Some guys say they would do it all over again some say they wouldn’t. Maybe part of it has to do with age and years removed from a conflict make the reasons and causes for their specific conflict less important than the lives of friends lost or the threat of having lost the life that they experienced since the war.
It makes me wish that we had diplomats, politicians, and military commanders who are extremely old. Or had a council of old wise people who had some power and influence, but didn’t have to vote on everything and would just give speeches and public advice. I might have to take back my word on that since I’ve also known some who are obstinately against things like condoms and sex outside marriage or other things that don’t fit this age. The US has had older politicians before and I wonder if losing some of those older wiser politicians has cost us something in our ability to see a bigger picture outside of party lines and whatever the next or last election was. I wonder if the 80s 90s and 2000s have made people too soft, too quick to hate or too quick to disagree, and unable to see the greater common good.
I wish that they hadn't edited out the responses after the translation was provided.