'Keep the peace': the appeal of a German veteran on eve of D-Day

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German veteran Paul Golz remembers the first Allied soldier he encountered short...

"Keep the peace": the appeal of a German veteran on eve of D-DayGerman army soldiers prepare wreath of flowers at La Cambe German war cemetery during a remembrance ceremony in La Cambe in Normandy as France prepares to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day, France, June 5, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

“I told him calmly to not be afraid. He had been told that the Germans killed everyone,” Paul Golz recalled on the eve of the anniversary of D-Day, standing amid the headstones of fallen comrades at the somber German war cemetery in La Cambe, northern France. Born in 1925, Golz said he had never supported the Nazi party and had been conscripted to fight Hitler’s war against Germany’s European neighbors.

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