Werewolf movement in Germany
Re: The Specter of the Werewolf:
Lessons from Post-War Germany
I do not know, where A. Rubin got this information from. At war’s end I was a 12-year-old boy in Germany. Yes, we members of the Jungvolk and Hitler Youth were encouraged to sabotage the enemy wherever we could, but to call the Werewolf movement well organized just is not true. As a matter of fact, it was not a tangible organization at all, just a symbolic one, per say and certainly some guys dreaming in basements of victory.
Whenever some Allied soldiers allegedly were killed by German civilians, this were most likely plain criminal acts involving robberies for food or cigarettes or soldiers molesting women. I lived in large cities from the middle of Germany to the South, I never heard of those deeds in grand scale, as the article implies.
By the way, the media was under Allied control and supervision until close to 1950, so they could not have published negative , anti Allied stories. To draw a paralell between the present Iraq and Germany 1945 lacks wisdom.
G.Penz,
Toronto-Canada
