Meeting the Enemy by Richard van Emden
Author:Richard van Emden
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-07-02T16:00:00+00:00
Several of my men were about to stick him with their bayonets, but he had been badly wounded in the face, and was unarmed, so I stopped them. Seeing this, he tried to shake my hand, and said ‘Kamerad’. But I shook him off, and searched him . . . When he understood he was not to be killed, his gratitude was extraordinary. As I would not shake hands, he insisted on shaking hands with a Somerset, who, a few minutes before, had been about to bayonet him.
During the fighting around the Somme village of Lesboufs, Guardsman Norman Cliff was also approached by a German who offered his hand, though whether Cliff took it is not clear from his memoirs. What helped broker the German’s surrender was his excellent English.
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