good talk

The TV Media purposely distracted me, Jordan Stokes' (JumpMaster) phone number is 702-641-2222 (see my Blogs of Sept. 12, 2013 and October 15.  Erich Priebke just died in Rome where he had been under House Arrest.  A Captain in the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) in WW 11 he had been convicted of the killings of 335 Italians on March 24, 1944 in retribution for the Partisan Attack on a Column of German SS the day before resulting in 33 Deaths.  Now, those Partisans knew that the Germans would be doing something like 10-1 and should have thought twice before attacking that Column.  Priebke, he was a Prussian, fled to Argentina after the War, his undoing was his Interview with Sam Donaldson in 1994 (of all things).  All those Old-Time Nazis they dug up said that they did nothing wrong (Joseph Mengele told his son these were "unworthy people").  His actions didn't seem to bother Erich that much as he lived to be 100.  The Germans are interesting if nothing else.  My Father was in the American Army in WW 11 an Officer in Tank Ordinance serving in North Africa and Italy.  He was a Liason Officer between Mark Clark's Army and the British 8th and was often in Rome.  An only child he had about 10 lst Cousins in the German Army, they were all killed except one, Emil, whose Division was forced back into Germany at the end to try to defend the place and when the War ended they surrendered to the Americans (to surrender to the Russians was Death).  After the War my Grandmother sent Emil anything you could think of, her Sister's Son, even a soccer ball, those Europeans won't live long without that.