Not much chance for practical hobby stuff yesterday, as I was off to Hull for my annual eye checkup. Having time to listen to stuff on the train, I was continuing my way through D-Day Through German Eyes Book 2 (link to Kindle version) – interesting stuff. Basically, it’s pretty literal transcripts of interviews with German survivors of D-Day, that were conducted in the 50s by the author’s grandfather while writing for ‚Die Wermacht‘ magazine. A wide range of accounts, many with vastly differing views on the war, the French, the British, the Americans…

Browning FP-45 – CC BY 4.0, from https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024251246/pistol-fp-45

The interesting one yesterday was an interview with German military policeman Niklaus Lange, and his account of a resistance assassination of a Panzer officer using a Browning FP-45 Liberator, essentially a one-shot pistol dropped for the French Resistance’s use. Lange (judging from the transcript) clearly was still suffering from PTSD, but it remains a fascinating account.