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We did not barter for food with the local civilians in the way that the Heer (German Army) did, but nevertheless we ate well. We regularly tried to send parcels of French food home to our relatives in Germany, where the diet was very restricted.
Let’s remember that Bayer, which I think is probably still the largest German pharmaceutical company, they invented their two wonder drugs in the 1930s, Aspirin and Heroin. They were intended to go hand in hand, if you remember back then (Aspirin = Hope, Heroin = Heroism.) You could get Heroin very easily from a pharmacist, just like Aspirin.
Today, I think the reality was that the Americans and the English were competing with the Russians for control of Europe. The Normandy invasion, if you think about it like this, was the American and English way of keeping the Russians out of Western Europe!