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This chapter relates individual stories of combat mercy, including the tale of Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld’s final choice that made him a moral hero his foes could not forget. Within hours of hand-to-hand combat contesting a small forester’s hut, he and his men risked their lives to help an American they had tried to kill just the night before. It details Lengfeld’s act of mercy and grace, which so impressed his former enemies that they crossed the Atlantic again 50 years later to gather in silence and honor him. The chapter highlights the monument erected by Americans to honor Lengfeld, which is remarkable considering how few memorials to Wehrmacht troops stand on German soil. The monument stands in quiet nobility, as uncommon in its presence as the merciful warrior it remembers. |
