Dutch memorial getting build for German Wehrmacht hero

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Originally Posted by Mikhayl

Seems like it's the initiative of a few individuals honouring another individual, in a 20000 people city, it's not like if it were a national thing. If the people there are fine with it, why not ?
By the way, never read "Forgotten Soldier" but I've read a book by a french waffen SS who was among the last defenders of Berlin. Strange read but there's some details that put some light on the fact that history is written by the winners.

You really should read The Forgotten Soldier, written by an half-german, half-french (cant remember the term for that), serving in the GrossDeutchland unit in the Eastern Front. Like Letum already pointed out, it has been questioned if it is real or a hoax, but from what I've searched from the internet, the hoax-sayers are pointing to small things, uniform details and such and on the opposite side there's even veterans from the GD unit backing him.

Anyways, a really gruesome and real description of the war on Eastern Front, the finnish version is ~800 pages, so really a 'brick', but I didnt get bored once. Highly recommended.

And lastly, got this from Wikipedia (I know, I know):
Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven has discussed with *Mouminoux the possibility of turning The Forgotten Soldier into a film.

I like Verhoven's movies, would like to see how he does an WWII war movie. It would be gory, that's for sure. :hmm:

*Mouminoux is the real surname of the author of the book.