“Even if I can speak English,” I reply, “we are in Germany here and speak only German. As far as the salute is concerned, we are ordered to salute in this way and being soldiers we carry out our orders. Besides, we do not care whether you object to it or not. Tell your C.O. that we are the “Immelmann” wing and as the war is now over and no one has defeated us in the air we do not consider ourselves prisoners. “The German soldier,” I point out, has not been beaten on his merits, but has simply been crushed by over-whelming masses of material. We have landed here because we did not wish to stay
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