“It was curious, really,” George Buch recalled. “The Germans, as Churchill said, were either licking your boots or at your throat, and the SS seemed to respect us more the harder we fought. They actually acted ‘humane.’ Given what we learned about them earlier, that was a pleasant surprise, but they were SS, so we knew it only went so far.”20 Bennett noticed the same phenomenon and he reluctantly acknowledged that “the Hun in some ways was very good.”21 During one lull, when Padre Royle held a funeral service for Privates Henry Bobbitt and Bernie Spencer—the cook and baker who doubled as
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