Monte Cassino: The Soldiers Story (World War 2 Battle Documentary) | Timeline

in monte •  7 years ago 
In March 1944 the 1st and 4th Essex Battalion's were enmeshed in one of the most bloody, dramatic British engagements of the war - five brutal days of fighting for the key obstacle on the allied...
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Germans depicted as human beeings?! That can't be! The movies told me that germans were all bloodthirsty warmongering monsters who loved to butcher people just for fun. Whats true now? I am confused.

Comic genius Spike Milligan fought at Monte Cassino before being evacuated as a psychiatric casualty after being wounded.

He said: "They [the hospital psychiatrists] found that all of the front-line soldiers were displaying symptoms, such as shaking, like the ones they were treating in the mental wards. Effectively the whole place had gone mad. I only met one person who wasn't wounded or didn't have some kind of psychological damage."