Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)

by Alexandra Lohse

A woman was sitting in a café in Munich. A wounded soldier came in, he was pretty badly wounded, and he sat down at the table. The woman looked at him for a while and then she asked the waiter to make the man at the table go away, she couldn’t bear to look at him. This waiter was smart. He went to an infantry lieutenant and told him [about] this woman.… The lieutenant stood up, went up to the woman, drew his revolver and shot her in the middle of the café. He just said to her, “Are you the person who is supposed to have said such-and-such?,” and she said quite imprudently, “Yes.” Then he drew his revolver. Anyhow he was brought before a court martial but was acquitted.56