German veteran Walther Wehrend honoured by Army Group South

World War Two German mountain trooper (gebirgsjager) veteran Walther Wehrend is given a guard of honour by Australian reenactment group Army Group South, on 8th of June 2008, at the annual History Alive festival, Fort Lytton, Brisbane, Australia.
Please be indulgent of the poor handiwork of the cameraman, and acknowledge instead the solemnity and poignancy of the occasion.

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[sosseries]

All rather perverse and strange to me , wanebee nazis (ooh arent the uniforms pretty) aknowleging an old mans exploits in a rather pathetic manner . leave him alone with hs dreams/nightmares of what it was really like . you pretend soldiers with your pathetic salute have no right to give that salute to what was probably a very brave soldier who unfortunatly was born on the wrong side of a horrendous war and think yourselfs lucky you did not have to live through it

[lapinblancdusud]

@sosseries No right to salute him? A willing participant in the exercise,delighted to return the next year and become club patron. I do think myself very lucky not to have had to live through war, thank you self-appointed schoolmistress. I was born in Australia, I won life's lottery - we pay tribute to the people who were not so lucky. None of us is a "wannabe Nazi" - we think the Nazis were scum. And as for pretend soldiers, most of us are former soldiers in real armies - even a Vietnam vet.

[Cowesset]

Beware the attraction for the pagentry and uniforms and flags and colors and drums, for a very dark evil lies beneath the surface.

[lapinblancdusud]

@Cowesset Really Mr Know-it-all...? I suppose a very dark evil lies below the surface of the men who reenact British Home Guard volunteers and NAAFI tent volunteers too? We do have them ! And Russian female nurses... US ambulance drivers... And our very own Australian Amry too... No evil in us at all mate, let alone a very dark one...!

[Abensberg]

yeah... and if some americans live in germany for the 3rd generation, they arent americans eh?

you guys have to be proud of your own history...

i guess you dont freakin know somethin about "livin in the REAL 3rd reich" so i dont know either

if its only because our soldiers are the bravest ever, you could also play WW1 or the german-french-war

thoose german guys where also the bravest our country have ever seen!

[panzermatt]

brave ol man. love it

[shotguns1994]

@kiwismx5 you're a fucking clown buddy.

[MrSebfrench76]

@lapinblancdusud

Obviously,you need a therapy.

[kiwismx5]

@lapinblancdusud Grow up mate, there is nothing glorious in what the Germans had intended for those of us living in the free world, they would have gassed your ass, your kids, wife etc etc. You or I wouldn't begin to understand or appreciate the hardships that the Germans posed on civilians unless you were one of those poor buggers that lived it, Your video is as dry as a dead dingo's donger in my book. Now take that under YOUR rock and smoke it mate.

[kiwismx5]

@shotguns1994 HA HA HA!! Oh you wanna be Nazi dude!

[colblimp]

@lapinblancdusud Even if he was SS, he should still be proud. Not all SS soldiers were bad boys, the ignorant comments on this thread show how little people know about their history.

I would have loved to have met him, I bet his stories were something special.

[lapinblancdusud]

@kiwismx5 I took this film, I had the privilege of knowing der alte Walther, he was very proud of his denazification clearance papers and NO nazi !! You didn't explicitly say that WE condone what nazis stand for, but I'll thank you not to all the same. They should be studied, and we do that. Note the past tense I use - because the brave old man is not alive any longer to defend himself against your ignorant suppositions and accusations. Back under your rock now mate...!

[lapinblancdusud]

@colblimp He was never SS, and pretty glad about it. He proudly showed his denazification papers to all and sundry. Note past tense, for he died two years ago. One of life's true gentlemen.

[lapinblancdusud]

@MrSebfrench76 Likewise, you make me sick - internet trolls are a dime a dozen. I don't do SS, but I recognise the need to have opponents , unless of course you like to play chess with no black pieces...? I do Russian in both world wars myself - and French as well, in the Napoleonic Wars..!

[lapinblancdusud]

@Eyyoh77 Who told you the old gentleman was SS...? He never was. And he can't defend himself from your slurs any more, now that he has been deceased nearly two years.

[MuscleManDaniel]

wow are you fucking serious? that ausome but kinda ironic considering the americans brittish and russians helped kill so many germans and destory berlin....Australia is a brittish colony

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@colblimp you are absolutely right.

[colblimp]

@MrJimmyboy1972 You're exactly right about the Prinz Eugen Division. The Nord Division may have relatively clean hands, but a lot of that Division was formed from the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, and we all know what they did before, and during, the war...

[colblimp]

@TheJBurner The SS had two mountain divisions - get it right, or f*** off, as you so eloquently put it!

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@colblimp ss gebirgs division nord, have relitivlely clean hands, prinz eugen on the other hand have exactly the opposite. an old soldier with (maybe innocent blood on his hands),

[Eyyoh77]

@Eyyoh77...yeah, a mountain storm trooper from the " Gebirgsjäger-SS " aus Berchtesgaden! LOL

!

[TheJBurner]

@Eyyoh77 it says in the description that hes a mountain trooper (gebirgsjäger). that means he was not from the SS. he was wehrmacht, the regular army. and now fuck off

[Eyyoh77]

Why do they honour a SS-murderer? This guy isn´t a honourable soldier! The Waffen-SS made no prisoners, killed women and children...

[colblimp]

@MrJimmyboy1972 He would have served in either the 6th SS Mountain Troop Division - Nord, or the 7th SS Mountain Troop Division - Prinz Eugen.

[MrSebfrench76]

You guys are nuts!

We frenchies had these types of men on our back for 4 years,and you're honoring their memory???

You make me sick.Everywhere i walk in my Normandie,i see what these little jokers did to my country.May they burn for centuries in hell.

[fliegerfaustkanonier]

He must have been thinking "what a bunch of lunatics"...

[Lagerfeld2008]

i know what Wather was thinking -----> " was für dämliche Vollidioten, wie komm ich hier bloß wieder weg?......................."