WWII American-Jewish Paratrooper Describes Being Captured by the Germans
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This guy is really sharp! Thank you for your service Sir, sorry you have to live with this.
This is the type of stuff that needs to be shown in history classes, I honestly believe videos like this show war In a more understandable aspect. It only ends in sadness for everyone, even the winners of war still lose millions of people.
Isn’t though? We had ww2 vets in my classroom. And a Vietnam one. Also, we were lucky enough to have a Holocaust survivor in our town that came in and spoke with us.
I guess it depends on your teachers? My history teachers were always very serious about this kind of thing. But maybe you’re just weren’t particularly good?
@dread nes it does here in NL. We are very grateful to these men. My whole life.
You should’ve asked the holocaust survivor about the Holodomor
@@Rokaize you were lucky to be surrounded by people who could share their dirst hand stories. But from the government, the goal of history class is not to teach that your ennemies are humans as well protecting their families and what they believe is right, but to demonize them with a good vs. Evil mentality
@@jonathanlaliberte3175 What good and evil argument are you referring to?
This guy sounds like he’s 55
I was wondering if I was the only one who thought he sounded young
@@rubes1688 me to.
He definitely is a non smoker.
Probably never drank or smoked. Lived on sardines and green tea
Lol probably lying about his service
almost 80 years after and he still remember every moment of that day far from home.
Sure it's easy to remember those moments especially in combat!
@@armyvet8279 yup for sure! He would still remember almost of it, irregardless of the proximity of his home...
@@ajcook7777 Exactly.
Well little bits of information always change
@@liamc1102 NO they don't. In certain circumstances certain things, including minute details, become hard wired into your brain. They don't change. Over time their vividness may decrease and they may fade, but they NEVER change.
Wow. A moment of humanity in an inhumane war.
Yes they were lucky. But what they went through : (
If you like this kind of story, do you already head the story from Franz Stigler? Worth google it.
@@CSA-359 Thanks
@Sith Jawa Yes, the great Christmas truce of 1914. Played soccer too. ...until the higher ups found out and stopped that forever.
What is a humane war then?
I wish this was a longer interview Thank You Sir for your service 🇺🇸
🇬🇧🇺🇸
God bless them. What a horrible experience to go through.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his poor tortured soul,😭
This guy in his late teens/twenties fighting for his life his country his freedom, people that age now believe the world owes them everything. All soldiers don’t get the respect and care they deserve
It sounds like you have reduced the war stories and various cultural trends and topics of discussion from present and pasts into hollow generalizations. Young people today have more access to various information and can inoculate themselves against the type of blind, xenophobic propaganda seen in WW2. We watched or even participated in an almost 2-decade long war for which we saw insufficient justification, and no benefit. Economic recession made us jaded. I think a lot of my fellow Gen Y and the following Gen Z wonder why those who romanticize the past just can't fathom the world actually moving forward and getting better.
And here is a gen z soy boy offended by what I said, you have just added weight to my point
only a sith deals in absolutes
I think that's a very broad overgeneralization. I have many friends who have been in combat. We've been in a war for 2 decades, you know. Somebody's gotta fight it, and it's always the young people.
@@luciddreams3493 The US Oil Stealing Armed Forces don't deserve respect anyway. I'll never thank some jackboot for their service.
Wow, he seems to be very mentally fit and sharp. Very interesting interview. Is there a longer one available?
I wish these were longer and had more info and stories
Combat does that to the ones that survive
Yeah, strange that the video ends before he (presumably) talks about what it was like to be in German captivity, which anyone who watches it must be wondering.
Yeah the full thing is on here and it’s over an hour long. You just have to oh crap sorry gotta go.
@@chriswebster24 you have a link?
Despite the hell they lived through, they came home, got jobs, had families and built lives for themselves. Incredible generation of men.
My grandfather fought the Nazis in Europe. My uncle told me that for almost a year after he got back home from the war that he sat on his porch with a rifle...like he was on guard...and to think that he went and fought the koreans as well after that, just shocks me
Great interview! I had an elderly friend who might’ve been there. He was wounded, and captured in a basement by Germans, who he said were SS members, and he stated that they were very humane in their treatment of him.
I’m sure he was at the exact farmhouse in Belgium, you are right for sure. No doubt about it
The problem is people often not differentiate between SS and Waffen-SS. The last one was the fighting arm of the SS and their Divisions served as part of the Wehrmacht Corps in combat. They were indeed ideologically questionable but have nothing to do with the creatures which managing the concentration camps.
Do you have any more information of his experience?
@@tristanceld8208 Sorry Tristan, you're wrong. The guards from the concentration camps were planned to be mostly wounded members of the Waffen SS being switched from frontservice and back. The devilish Nazi organisation knew too well, that the personal had to be changed all the time to get a lot of people involved.
@@tristanceld8208 which ones were worse? I know the SS was responsible for so many war crimes, so curious
Wow, he sounds remarkably good in shape for his age and what a story he's telling! My grandfather also had to risk his life in the 2nd world war, but on the German side. Being just 18 years old in 1942 he got drafted and had to fight at eastern and western front until jan. 1945. He was lucky and survived, returned home in relatively good health in 1946. Whereas two of his uncles (aged 19 and 36 yo), some other relatives and friends, were not. Researching your family history really makes you realize even more how much of a madness and horror this all was. We're all humans - never again!
Glad he survived. There's a great book from the German perspective from a General on the Eastern Front, "The Gehlen Organization". He foresaw the loss and prepared in advance to surrender to the allies, offering his intelligence services to them to protect Germany from the soviets. For your grandfather to survive that and return home in good health is incredibly lucky. Hardcore history's episodes about those battles are indeed full of madness and horror.
@@BenWeeks yes, hundredthousands of lives could have been saved if they'd just given up, for months the situation got worse and worse, the loss and total destruction was foreseeable. Apart of a few pieces of shrapnel in his neck (which always made things funny at the airport) my grandfather was physically fine, but how tough must it have been with so many loved ones dead and his "old Berlin" completely in ruins. Damn war... but yeah, that's what you get when following a madman. 😔
@@mtronaut1694I think they didn’t see Hitler as a madman. By the Versailles treaty so many Germans had to suffer poverty and hunger that they saw in Hitler the man who could make things better. And he did for quite a while. From 1933 till ca. 1939 economy was booming, people had again food and a look for a bright future.
That made many of the Germans very appraisal towards Hitler. Hitler got in the first 7 years of his reign 7 million Germans out of joblessness.
He made rules like a 40 hour workweek, social housing for workers, many socialist idea’s.
That’s why I always find it ridiculous that the national socialists are called extrem right.
They program was mainly socialistic because when you put the idea’s of the NSDAP next to the idea’s of the Republicans or in Germany the FDP you’ll soon find out that most of the points in there program relate to the Democrats and in Germany to SPD, Linke and Grünen.
The only thing that called extrem is the treatment of foreigners but tell me which normal right party has anti foreigner idea’s?
Have the Republicans anti foreigner idea’s or the FDP or CDU/CSU?
Hitler was a symptom of the way the allies treated Germans after WW1. They learned from it after WW2 and instead of punishing the German people they give them hope with the Marshall plan. That is a totally different approach of victory.
My uncle was a member of the 82nd and saw action from North Africa, to Sicily, and jumped into France on D-day. He was also in operation Market Garden and jumped into Nijmegen. Talking to my cousin years later he told me the only place he never saw action was the Battle of the Bulge. And he said of that he was blessed.
Thank you for your service and your incredible sacrifices...I can’t even imagine what you’ve gone through. I’ve never been in the military, but I was a paramedic for nine years when I was younger and that was more than enough for me :/
Such courage of these soldiers. Lest we forget their sacrifice and courage these stories are priceless. Many thanks for sharing.
Damn. What can you say? I have all the respect in the world for you and all the other vets that have served.
So much is owed by so many to these wonderful men.
i dont want to belittle what this guy went through, but what exactly would that be? the shithole we live in today?
First of all, the country he fought for back then was a lot different than the one we inhabit today. There's no way he could've imagined what America would unfortunately turn into 60-something yrs from then.
Secondly, while I agree that our country has certainly gone downhill in many ways (lack of morals, lack of understanding of our constitutional rights, etc.), we still have MUCH for which we should be grateful. At least we have more freedoms and better access to the bare necessities than most of the people in the world today!
So yes, we do indeed owe these brave souls a large debt of gratitude! GOD BLESS ALL U.S./ALLIED VETS & ACTIVE MILITARY!
@@weisthor0815
You sir, are an ingrate.
@@hoonaticbloggs5402 for what would i be ungrateful? i am german, buddy ;-)
the western democracies are declining, all of them. that is not this vets fault, but he fought for the powers that made it possible.
remember what patton said. you fought the wrong enemy.
Oh! @@weisthor0815 is a German? 🤦🏻♀️ Well in that case, my apologies to him. He was indeed correct about living in a poop hole. 😁
Thank you sir for your service, and I’m sorry you all had to witness and participate in the horrors of war. I’m glad they treated you well. God bless you.
Thank you for your service
You never forget the experience of war, it's something that stays with you for life...
You should know all the battles with us Anglo saxons and such .... 😉⚔️
Ubbe was your best son by the way 😂
The French didn't surrender to him, either. The Norman's remember walking over dead Anglo Saxons. The crown was a few sizes too small.
My uncle! Great guy and still “sharp” and full of love and gratitude… 96 years old!
I could listen to these guys all day! I'm glad somebody's getting all of this down.
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@@RememberWW2 it is done.
Imagine being both Jewish, *and* Airborne Infantry, where it's your job to be overwhelmed and outnumbered by the enemy; in this case Germans. Talk about grit and determination. Respect!
@ussr lost ww2 You obviously can't comprehend the English language to not understand my post comment.
As a member of the Airborne Infantry, the trooper volunteered to jump *behind* enemy lines, knowing that he would immediately be both surrounded, and *outnumbered* by an enemy fighting force, which had long occupied the area where said paratrooper was about to land.
That was part of the job description of any Airborne Infantry soldier, to volunteer with knowledge beforehand that he would be overwhelmed and outnumbered by a hostile opposing force in direct action.
@ussr lost ww2 You obviously aren’t informed enough to make a proper argument on anything related to World War 2 I suggest you do some real research on it and desist with the Wehraboo nazi propaganda.
@@jeffdugger3276
To be fair the intelligence reports often simply underestimated the enemy in the area, thus bringing the airborne troops into situations that
came as a rather nasty surprise.
Just for example the German Fallschirmjäger certainly would have never attacked Crete the way they did, if they would have known that there were at least twice as many enemies as they expected on the island.
In the planning of Operation Market Garden the allies underestimated the German troop strength and remaining ability to fight.
@ussr lost ww2
Ok I guess you’re just trolling.
Sure there were also war crimes committed by US Forces including incidents during which they killed prisoners of war, but saying that they executed every German prisoner ist just stupid.
Obviously there’s a reason why a lot of Axis troops were trying to fight their way to the west at the end of the war in order to surrender to the Americans or British, Canadians,... instead of getting captured by the Soviets.
We (America) mostly fought a broken German Army on the run. Our biggest battle against Germany was a bulge in the line when they did go on offense. It could've been worse, but they had no resources left to fight with, so their attack didn't work. This guy saw hundreds of German tanks coming toward him. If I was a German soldier going on offense, I'd rather have an extra hand grenade than a stranger's pictures and metals.
I am a veteran of a different era I have the deepest respect for these veterans! God bless them for the horrors they faced! The sacrifices they made! Truly honored. God bless you all , may the lord bless you in the honor you deserve! Thank you your sacrifices changed the world as we now know it!
War Criminals
@@paulmauer9405 Lowlife. Just leave.
The memory recall of this veteran, veterans in general is phenomenal! My late father was in the 2nd AIF, Australian Imperial Forces in WW2. He took his box Brownie camera with him. Took some 800+ photos of which about half was confiscated by the Australian hierarchy in Papua New Guinea when they discovered his clandestine operations. Long story short, he brought home some 300-400 pics & stored them in a plastic bag. Some 50 years later I asked him if he would be able to put them in an album. Whilst I sat with him, he picked up each & every one then told me where & when he took them! Absolutely incredible! But like this dear man, the war never left them, nor more so the mates they lost. Lest We Forget. 🙏🏻😢
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God bless you sir. We owe you and you buddies so. much
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These interviews are AWESOME!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK !!! BRAVO 👏
When he said “he WAS a great BOY” I could tell what was about to happen
Thank you for your service Sir. God bless.
This hero is young at heart! Thank you for sharing your story and for your service Sir!
What an alert gentleman, great to hear his story
Thank you Sir for your service and our freedom. May God bless you.
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Man this pain of war never leaves these men
Respect for your courage to go fight for your Country...
✌️from 🇨🇦
Thanks for recording their stories!
This mans sharp as a tack, thank you for your services my friend, god bless🙏
I know y'all have heard it before, but thank you SO much for these interviews.
I was fortunate enough to know Marty. A truly great veteran.
He’s dead?
My great grandfather was also in the 17th Airborne, I never got to hear any of his experiences, he didn’t share them to much. The Golden Talons were such a brave airborne division, along with the others. Thank you very much for your service sir
Very interesting story. My great uncle was captured by the Germans possibly in Eastern France or Western Germany. He was resting with a shrapnel wound when his fellow soldiers had to retreat and leave the wounded behind. A German with a machine pistol came into the room and said in German "surrender or die". So he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner and they treated him well from what I heard. He later served in Korea and even later became a Warrant Officer.
@Nidal Hasan Wow - what a demented statement. "[P]retty good people" who committed genocide, murdered untold millions of civilians, invaded other countries....list goes on and on. You're one sick individual.
@Zombie They were reclaiming lost territory from the unjust treat of Versailles. If the Brits/French had been the bigger men at the end of the Great War, ww2 wouldn't have happened. Making a country pay a fair amount of war reparations is one thing, but giving half of their land to pathetic countries like Poland and forcefully splitting formerly united people (The Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman's) accomplished nothing in their favor and only served to promote a revenge-driven generation of determined young men ready to march into Hell to get their dues. The Ottomans were the only thing holding the middle East together, now look at it.
@Zombie while Britain had an empire that had 1/3 of the world in its pocket. Hilarious and outrageously hypocritical.
@Zombie I can point you towards centres of ww2 knowledge that is suppressed by the establishment. I’m sure you know of BitChute.
@Zombie what sort tho? There’s a treasure full of his speeches uploaded there that will eventually be deleted by big tech censorship.
All the interviews are impressive with the details of their experiences! Excellent interviews as I have always been intrigued with World War 2 timeline. Thank you!
thank you from europe four your service
Thanks for sharing these stories.
This man is a traitor
Great video thanks. Certainly Tough times for those lads. Thankyou so much for you and your mates service. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.
Half his face gone, he probably died of his wounds , or was shot by gernans as a mercy killing.
Yeah, they had to keep moving. He is with friends in a big hole somewhere, RIP.
"take care of him" has some code in there...
I would have begged them to shoot me.
Mercy killing just what i was thinking of, i cant imagine being in that position where a friend had half his face missing i think i might have asked them to shoot him, iv seen photo,s from ww1 where solders had horrendus facial injuries makes you wonder how they carried on living.
""take care of him"" have a sinister meaning, he obviously was not meaning medical care
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Thank you sir. Forever grateful 🥲
75 years later and he still remembers names and details of conversations. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you sir for the freedom we enjoy.
The freedom we used to enjoy.
@@rickremco6275 Omg you stole my comment, I was just about to say the same exact thing. Its just horrible whats happening to this country. I'm sure these brave men are turning over in their graves.
@@rickremco6275 stop listening to talk radio
@@jimritzheimer7465 stop listening to talk radio
What does he have to do with freedom and what freedom did he bring to whom?
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Why are people disliking this?
God bless you and thank you for your service and keeping our freedom intact. Thank you also for telling your story. I'm sorry you lost your best friend.
We owe you, Sir. May your friends and enemies rest in Peace
Great interview.
I just can’t imagine going thru the hell these men went thru, not sure I could do it myself! Amazing men, god bless you all and thank you 🙏
This should be shown in high schools to show them how irrelevant their petty feelings and issues really are
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I agree. I teach High School. I’m so disappointed with the lack of historical knowledge and respect kids have. Bad parenting and a broken education system.
Well actually the economy were in and the plastics and chemicals in our foods and literally everything else(which your generation created) which has deteriorated our genetics and made us more prone to mental illness and made men more feminine (bpa is used like estrogen by the body) and a plethora of things an oldie doesnt know or care to know about, have really put a damper in our lives but sure life is easy now right? At least you dont have to watch the world end in your lifetime
@@billyray4716 All excellent points. I’m 52 and I feel I am watching the world end. I’m thankful I don’t have kids to inherit our mess.
@@Chef_Jeff69 i understand that, i wish i could bring myself to have kids but i dont this world to know them
This guy is still sharper then most college kids
I got shivers thinking about his dead friend, who knows if the Germans did take him to a hospital, found out he passed then buried him, they probably couldn’t tell anyone because there was still a war and or they died themselves…very sad story
I could listen to these brave men and women talk all day. Thanks for sharing their personal experiences of combat. 🇺🇲
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@@RememberWW2 subscribed already!
Thank you for your service..
Thanks to the channel for preserving and sharing these stories!
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Amazing life war story sir! Thank you and God bless you for your service to our country 🇺🇸!
Thank you for documenting and sharing my uncle’s story. 🙏
Your uncle, honestly? It's a quite common term in the US to say to your veterans "thank you for your service". Well, I'm a German, please let him know I thank him also for his service to MY country! Because I highly apprechiate to grew up and live in a free country, free Europe, surrounded by friends and allied 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸
@@winnione617 Thank you for your kind words and I’ll do better than that, I’ll call Uncle Marty and read him your comment! Both my uncle and father served as paratroopers in WWII. My father followed in my uncles steps. They’re a couple of spitfires still at 96 and 93!
@@cowgirlinthesand1984 wow, even two of them 😁 blessed family. Hope they still have many years to tell their story. Not many witnesses left to tell about these mad times...
@@winnione617 So true. Not sure about my uncle before he was captured but my father made 28 jumps. Each time he jumped he believed he would die, he made those jumps because he was in service to his country. The war experience didn’t end when they finally came home, war trauma is real and affects the whole family. Back in those days they sent soldiers straight home from battle. Both are able bodied and living independently and are quite the characters. Thanks again for your kind words.
@@cowgirlinthesand1984 yes, that's true, and in the US almost all generations in younger history have to deal with traumatized veterans (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan,...). But still, the particular brutality of WWII is hard to imagine
for later generations.
side note: It was my first comment I ever did on UA-cam. I came across this video just the night before the (very democratic and civilized) elections in Germany. I was not aware of it, but I think I wanted to say 'thanks' to someone for this privilege. It's a legacy also of your uncle and dad ;-)
It would be very helpful if the name, rank, unit and branch of service for this combat veteran were listed in the description.
I have been bingeing on interviews like this and have found that the stories of the veterans has contributed greatly to my understanding of WW2. Growing up I would hear stories from relatives that had served in Europe, the Pacific and the US Merchant Marine (bravest souls ever).
Great videos glad I stumbled upon this channel in my recommended
Losing friends, my Canadian step-dad, didn't talk of, or celebrate the war. In his late nineties, he was proud of his medals. As the dementia set in.. Great old guys, tough as hell, with integrity.
At the end of the day no side came out victorious..we all are victim, in one way or another
My deep RESPECT to every veterans 🙏🙏🙏
As a German I can assure you that the whole world came out victorious.. The administration of nazi Germany was pure evil. But ofc many soldiers didn't want to have anything to do with it. My grandfathers both had to fight back then. One of them was only 15 years old and was forced into the Wehrmacht in 1945. The other one was some years older and fought on the eastern front. He was a bitter man.
That’s how brother wars work.
@@Allegedly2right Too true. The Africans and the middle easterners.
@@wattage2007 I think the Palestines won't agree...
I believe many many Industries benefited from the war.. from warships to socks many people profited..
War is good for Business...
Wow, incredible story. Thank you for your service
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thanks for your service sir 👍🇺🇸🙏
I'm from Wisconsin and I believe what he said about that boy from Wisconsin 🙂
I highly enjoy and appreciate all these interviews but would been nice to also know the names of the ppl being interviewed. Thanks again for documenting these ww2 memories.
Thank you Sir, God bless you ALL 🙏
Thank you sir for your service..
Thank you Sir !!!!
Excellent interview
new favourite channel.
A lot of the posts here are facinating as well.
How anyone lived through that I will never know ....
Most that saw combat didnt, thats the scary part. The ones that survived went in at the end, im not saying they werent brave or anything negative, im saying it wasnt something anyone would survive, it would be the same if a war like that happened again
How can u be this normal and young looking after that man I say this about all of these videos these guys should get so much more than what ever they do get if they get anything
Respect sir, top bloke
merci ! 🇫🇷
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Thank you Sir!
Thank you for this for I shall remember it.
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Wow. Agreed. How sharp is this elderly hero. Huge respect sir. Thank you for your service. 🙏🇮🇱🇿🇦❤💪
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As he's talking about the atrocities of war, he remembers his friend who got blown to pieces and says, "great kid, wonderful boy" *Boy* these were boys. Boys who had to ask to go to the bathroom a year before in high school. Now they were carrying guns and fighting to liberate those who couldn't liberate themselves. Amazing. Sad, heart wrenching, and amazing. Absolutely the greatest generation.
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I'm about to be 30 and it still amazes me that we have people from world war 2 alive. Ww2 seems like old history like Napoleon or WW1, but we still have living people from this age.
Thank you Sir
What village or town is the old man talking about? I live in the German-Belgian border area approx. 70 km from the Hürtgen Forest. The remains of German and American soldiers are repeatedly found there. How it is in Belgium, however, I don't know. I cannot say whether victims of the Battle of the Bulge will still be found there.
many brave men on all sides. it is amazing how many former foes have become friends. my utmost respect to those who served on the allied sides, and sympathy for those forced into combat roles against their wishes (no matter which side). my grandfather served in front line trenches in WW 1
My great grandfather served in Austria-Hungary army in Italy and grandfather in North Africa campaign within french army. Czechs are brave if they fight and even braver if they fight for their course.
@@knightatthecrossroads222 Anyone who does something they're afraid of is, by definition, brave.
❤️🙏🇺🇸 God bless all those men. What a clear mind this gentleman had. So proud of what they accomplished, and gave us.
RESPECT
So sad about the boy that lost half of his face. He never got to met his son.
Imagine how scared he was hiding downstairs.
What an impressive gentleman would love to see a longer interview. Thank you.
Want to hear more from this man...sharp as a tack.
Thank you.
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It bothers me when people make comments about how “sharp they are for their age” they’re older, not dumber. Wiser! Unless they are sick with a disease. Take time to talk to elders you’ll learn this and most likely way more.
Touching story, watered my eyes! He helped with his service to free my country from tyranny. In this inhuman war, little sparkles of humanity are so important not to give up the faith, like this eye-contact that prevented the german soldier from throwing the grenade. I am blessed to live in a free democratic country, friendly with former enemies, thanks to men like him! God bless him and all involved, greetings from Germany! 🕊