-- and I do -- thank him for doing that.

It may or may not be true and we have no way of determining its veracity -- the fact is that it was published in Germany and that the publication is likely to affect German views of the US. Briefly, to be sure; that kind of stuff is transitory for all but the most confirmed war haters -- or America haters -- so it is likely to have no great impact on the world.

Fuchs is correct in that war brutalizes people but others are correct in that the whole story is a bit flaky and some of the allegations do not compute to anyone who really knows how such things are done as opposed to having read about it. I mentioned the quest for solatia payments by exaggeration earlier and that is a possiblity. We're unlikely to find out.

Steve's got it right, I think, the truth is almost certainly somewhere between the poles.