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Mg full name is Jack Leroy Dueller. This is two
weeks after , its dark, raining, muddy, and
I' m stressed, so I get mg trumpet out; and the
commander sags "Jack dont play tonight,
because there is one sniper left. "
I thought to myself that German sniper is as
scared and Iona; as I am. so I thought, I' ll play
his love song.
The next; morning, here came weep from up the
beach about; a mile and a half away, and the
military police sags: "Hey captain, there' s some
German prisoners getting ready to go to
England, one of them keeps saying in broken
English, who played that trumpet last nights?"
And he burst: into mos he said "When I heard
that number that you played, I thought about:
my fiancee in Germany, I thought about; mg
mother and dad, about: mg brothers and sisters,
and I couldn’ t tire." And he stick out; his hand,
and I shook the hand of the enema. He was no
he was scared and lonely like me.
The power of music.

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#16 - catburglarpenis (12/17/2015) [-]

"I'll play him a love song."

*gets out music player*

BONGO BONGO BONGO I DON'T WANNA LEAVE THE CONGO OH NO NO NO NO NO

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#68 to #16 - qnamanmanga (12/17/2015) [-]

Or "Why you comin' home 5 in the morn'
Something's going on, can I smell yo dick?
Don't play me like a fool, cause that ain't cool
So wat u need to do is lemme smell yo dick "

#69 to #16 - talldumbdork ONLINE (12/17/2015) [-]

What do you mean darlinnnnnnnnnn

#73 to #16 - alpako (12/17/2015) [-]

Tuturu tuu~

#67 to #16 - thrifty (12/17/2015) [-]

Every time I read 'trumpet' I think of this. What has the internet done to me?

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#1 - gearhead (12/16/2015) [-]

yup...some feels were had

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#2 - theuberzer (12/17/2015) [-]

WW2 Veteran remembers the time he played a song for a Nazi sniper

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#10 to #2 - Riukanojutsu (12/17/2015) [-]

"for a nazi soldier"

*Wermacht
FTFY

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#14 to #10 - xexion (12/17/2015) [-]

*Wehrmacht
And as not garbage as the Wehrmacht were, they were still nazi soldiers.

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#56 to #14 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

They red-thumb you for this...but if you do a detailed study of the history of the time, it is extremely obvious that no attempts were made to hide from the German people the fact that they were electing someone for the purpose of, as well as fighting for the purpose of, taking over the world and committing mass genocide of any race deemed inferior to them.

There were innocent Germans caught up in it...but they were the minority.

#77 to #56 - xexion (12/17/2015) [-]

They were soldiers deployed by the Facist Totalitarian State of Germany, ruled by Führer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler of the ruling, and only, state party; the Nazi Party.
Members of the Wehrmacht may not have believed in Nazi values, nor have been card-carrying members of the party - but when you go to war, whether willingly or not, under this flag, you are a soldier for the Nazi Regime. In shorter words, you are a Nazi Soldier.
Is the Wehrmacht as bad as the SS? **** no.
Did they sometimes work with the SS? Yes.
Did they have some involvement in atrocities committed? Yes.
Are they the sole reason for those atrocities? No, and there were members who actively put themselves in harm's way to help the Jews.
Did they attempt to overthrow the Nazi Regime? As a whole? No. Some individuals in the Wehrmacht did try to assassinate Hitler, but in general "An overthrow of Hitler was out of the question. The group wanted to avoid a major war and the potential catastrophic consequences for Germany. Their goal wasn't to get rid of the dictator but, as they saw it, to bring him to his senses."

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#54 to #10 - DweebyTwonkyHead (12/17/2015) [-]

If your Nazi government makes you go war you are a soldier not a Nazi soldiers unless you are a scumbag of course.

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#9 to #2 - imdan (12/17/2015) [-]

Thats beautiful
German soldier fw the music starts
This was the only picture I had that was semi relevant

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#6 - notblindguy (12/17/2015) [-]

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#7 - redbannerman (12/17/2015) [-]

War seems to me like it was something that had good men on either side fighting for what they thought was right. What happened to that?

#60 to #7 - makethingsworse (12/17/2015) [-]

We realized there was a lot of money in killing people. Also we started killing religious zealots... and you can't kill a radical religion.

#25 to #7 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

Still happening.
One side thinks theyre in the right
The other knows theyre in the right
Whats the diffrence? Who started it?
Why are we doing it?

More blood has been spilt in the name of religeon then any other reason combined in history. Think about that.

#37 to #25 - vigilum (12/17/2015) [-]

Doesn't mean religion is the cause of war. It's always about power and similar.

Religion is a good way to make your side seem like the just one, which is important. But you can do that with nationalism or a whole list of other things.

#62 to #25 - velzizar (12/17/2015) [-]

Yeah, in the name of religion... it has been most times an easy excuse for starting a war. War has always been and continues to be about interest. Wether it'll be about territory, resources oil , or something else it is much more oportune to say you do something in the of what you believe in instead of just saying you just wanted this or wanted that.

#65 to #62 - velzizar (12/17/2015) [-]

in the name of what you believe in*

#58 to #25 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

No dumbass. More people died in WW2 than in all other wars combined. There weren't enough people around before the 20th century to add up to the total deaths in WW2. HAHA TAKE THAT!!!!

#42 to #7 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

Watch "Band of Brothers".
Then, watch "The Pacific".
Then, watch "Generation Kill".

Dunno what happened, but I don't like it.

#18 to #7 - theydontlikeu (12/17/2015) [-]

war never changes.

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#38 to #18 - arreatface (12/17/2015) [-]

war.. war has changed

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#19 to #7 - severepwner (12/17/2015) [-]

It happened once we made peace with all those countries and friendships. There's no need to fight the civilized on the battlefield again.

But the uncivilized. Like the North Vietnamese, and all the terrorists of the Middle East, they no interest in honor or peace.

#50 to #19 - Indoknight (12/17/2015) [-]

>no interest in honor or peace

Neither do we. Look at drone strikes. Look at how much money the military industrial complex is making. War is fueled by corporations that have power over elected officials. It's been this way for over 100 years.

#12 to #7 - innocentbabies (12/17/2015) [-]

Depending on how you define "good," absolutely nothing. It's still two sides fighting for what they believe in until one of them can't keep fighting. Both sides still commit atrocities. And war is still hell. That's something that I think isn't emphasized enough, we're not doing good by fighting anyone, we're killing them so they don't get in the way when we try to do what we consider to be good.

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
Jimmy Carter

#24 to #12 - sonicg (12/17/2015) [-]

I like that. Saved.

#26 to #24 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

Would be funnier with a leopard and terrorists

Im done supporting russia. Theyre just a cunt lately

#27 to #26 - sonicg (12/17/2015) [-]

I prefer the Abrams personally, but I don't know **** about tanks, I'm not a 19 series.

#11 to #7 - theugandanhero (12/17/2015) [-]

Money

#23 to #11 - hassoutobi (12/17/2015) [-]

power

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#3 - memenoob ONLINE (12/17/2015) [-]

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#32 - anonymoose (12/17/2015) [-]

GIF

Warning: playing instruments during war doesn't alway stop bullets being fired.

#43 to #32 - anonywolftroll (12/17/2015) [-]

Carach Angren - The Funerary Dirge of a Violonist

"The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist" by Carach Angren

One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs for those who love music.
I'm actually going to see them live for the 4th time tomorrow!

#44 to #43 - anonymoose (12/17/2015) [-]

It's an amazing song, but the music video is horribly cheesy.

#47 to #44 - anonywolftroll (12/17/2015) [-]

I mean, they pretty much exactly played out the lyrics of the song in a video...I would't know how else to portray it...

#45 to #44 - anonywolftroll (12/17/2015) [-]

Yeah, agreed. I think however that the concept of the song is just too emotional and dramatic to be made into a video without it becoming cheesy.

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#15 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

Shove trumpet up your ass
signal the enemy you are not afraid

*brooop* *tooot*-*toot*

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#4 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

I want a statue made from this man.

I want his words enscribed at the bottom forever.

I want this statue in all war memorials.

#53 to #4 - mondominiman (12/17/2015) [-]

I want a pizza pocket but we all can't get what we want

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#5 - sgtmajjohnson (12/17/2015) [-]

Is he the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B?
Seriously though, that was feelsy

#21 - endface (12/17/2015) [-]

#39 - krygas (12/17/2015) [-]

Reminder that the Germans did nothing wrong.

#52 to #39 - Sethorein ONLINE (12/17/2015) [-]

The Germans did nothing wrong, the nazis did. Yet the evil was so banal who would even notice what was happening until looked upon retrospectively?

You hear such terrifying stories. The German public thought gas chambers were a luxury. They were upset that hitler was using all the good gas on the Jews and communists and leaving none for them in case the war went poorly.

The world was mad. Such a tragic period.

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#64 to #52 - anon (12/17/2015) [-]

The Germans elected the Nazi party to power even though the party was not exactly cryptic about what its plans were.

They VERY much have blame in it.

#76 to #64 - Sethorein ONLINE (12/17/2015) [-]

Disenfranchisement and poverty make you blind to crimes against humanity. You make excuses, you look the other way, language was actually quite cryptic in German politics. Doublespeak was invented in that period. Rather than refer to the holocaust as genocide they referred to it as the "most important mission in European history" a "fateful challenge for Germany to overcome". With language they removed agency and made evil more... normal. They industrialized evil so no one person ever felt like they were really killing anyone.

Like I said, a tragic time period.

#29 - mcburd (12/17/2015) [-]

Its a good feel tho

#61 - seamusmcmaximus (12/17/2015) [-]

"My last action as a veteran is to hit High C and fall into the Grave"

oh man
i can't stop crying
and i know i'll never stop playing the trumpet now

#22 - thalex (12/17/2015) [-]

Wrote down a diary entry from Dan Carlins history podcast if anyone wants to read it.
It's an entry by a German soldier fighting in Stalingrad 1942.
Quite powerful, although I havnt been able to find the whole thing in any history book, only sections of it.

"We have fought during 15 days for a single house,
with mortars, grenades, machine guns, and bayonets.
Already by the third day 54 German corpses are strewn
in the cellars, on the landings, and the staircases. The front is
a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling
between two floors. Help comes from neighboring houses by fire
escapes and chimneys. There is a ceaseless struggle from noon to
night. From story to story, faces black with sweat, we bombard
each other with grenades in the middle of explosions, clouds of
dust and smoke, heaps of mortar, floods of blood, fragments of
furniture and human beings. Ask any soldier what half an hour of
hand-to-hand struggle means in such a fight. And imagine
Stalingrad; 80 days and 80 nights of hand-to-hand struggles. The
street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses...
Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous
cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the
reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those
scorching, howling, bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the
Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of
Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the
hardest stones can not bear it for long; only men endure."

Lieutnant Weiner, 24th Panzer Division, 6th Army

#40 to #22 - porkslapchop (12/17/2015) [-]

That's powerful. Thanks btw I've been looking for good podcasts.

#20 - garlikk (12/17/2015) [-]

>Being the level 10 bard

#71 - imjared (12/17/2015) [-]

so he played a german love song? or am i misunderstanding this?

either way though, that's beautiful

#49 - sketchE (12/17/2015) [-]

thats why the german canpaign wasnt near as brutal as the japanese campaign. we were too similar. we had so much more tolerance for germans because they looked like us they sounded like us they acted like us everything. not so much for the japanese