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Did your father and the man you married in 1955 ever talk about their experiences on the Eastern Front? Or about things they witnessed there?

Thanks very much for the reply and for the AMA! Also if it's possible to get another answer to a more sensitive question: did your relatives talk about any atrocities they saw in the east?

Thanks again

He was an SS man who fought in Italy against Italian soldiers and went on to serve in Normandy. I'm almost certain he was in the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler division. The division fought Italians in late 1943 (though not in the Battle of Monte Cassino, which was later) and then in Normandy in 1944. In both areas, they didn't exactly have the best reputation among civilians....

I think the mix-up over him Monte Cassino was just a mistake. No Waffen SS units fought there

In 1955 she got engaged to my grandfather. His first wife died during the war in Düsseldorf because of bombing. When he was in the war, he was in russian war imprisonment and was later transfered to a French prison. He died in 2000 in a car accident.

He fought for Germany, I assume from this detail.