"Leitmann experienced many of the war’s horrors. Some he will never forget.
'We were coming to a suburb. We stopped,' he recalled almost 80 years later. 'And there were 15, 20 kids, all boys. They were 10 to 12 years old.' They were dead. They had been hanged. 'I knocked at the first door. I wanted to know what had happened.' The residents told him that members of the notorious German Waffen SS had killed the children. 'Apparently, Waffen SS had come through and rounded up kids from that age and handed each one a Panzerfaust [rocket-propelled grenade] and told them to fire [it] at the first American tank they saw.'
When the tanks came, the boys ran away. 'A day later, the SS came … rounded up every kid they could and hanged them from trees. They hanged their children.'”
~ Hans Pfeifer
"Berkeley WWII veteran, 99, helped liberate Nazi concentration camp. Now he warns of fascism in U.S."
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/27/berkeley-wwii-veteran-nazis-fascism-us
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