If you’ll bear with me for another digression post, another sub – subject about WW2 that interests me is the collapse of

discipline in some units of the German army. I have only come across two mentions of this. One was in a novel, based

on real events, by an Albanian author, that is based around the Wehrmacht soldiers in Albania who sold their weapons

to locals and hired themselves out to farmers. I came across one more mention of this in a entirely nonfiction account

of a Western spy in the Reich, where he communicated about collapse of Wehrmacht units on the same Front. OH and

one more, by a German POW in Russia, allowed to work outside the camp lumbering, who met Germans who were

living in remote areas of the mountainous USSR, never having surrendered and the national control and penetration

of the particular area so slight that it had not come to the government’s attention. I’m sure that situation did not last

too long.

-Hue Miller