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Over the years I have attended more than my share of Dawn Services.
I have met and spoken with many old retired soldiers.
Their stories confirm what journos have to say, and that is:
The Germans, Turks and later the Japs never liked to take on an Aussie force. They'd much rather fight Yanks or British or anyone else. They claimed that the Aussies employed unconventional strategies. They were unfair and conjuctioned with Anzac courage the Anzacs were a formidable opponent.
Example:
German force lead by tanks. The Anzacs opened up their line and allowed the tanks through. Closing again behind the tanks. Separating the following German infantry from the tanks. This strategy made the tanks ineffective. The German infantry was clobbered. The tanks ended in "no mans' land, at the mercy of artillary.
After seeing much of the Nurnburg (Neurenberg) trial clips and documentries. Where the Nazi war criminals were fronted for their crimes. I am surprised that they called the Anzac soldiers unfair.
I recently returned from Germany. The German people today are a very good people. They are embarrassed to be the surviving populace of such a violent and sadistic military in the past. There are even laws in place that really surprised me. These laws effectively prevent anyone from denying that the holocaust took place, and a number of other issues to make the past Nazi Rule a bad time in German History.
Visiting the old concentration camps was a creepy experience.
I wont enter into that here. To have experienced it on a TV set is moderately tolerable. To see the camps first hand. I get goose bumps.
No body wins a war. There are huge losses on both sides.
These Kiwis who are making these accusations obviously have never experienced anything like a battle. Their info is poorly obtained. Their not well informed at all. In my mind they have some kind of sour-grape mentality towards the Aussies and I would say they are a minority.
The better Kiwi people are very loyal and trusting to the Anzac tradition. I have never found a bad Kiwi personally. I have only heard about them.
Cheers
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