Norman Ohler

camping out and the German Rommel was going with the tank through that village with his division just running over people

And he was standing like in the open lid of the tank and he was like going through that thing, you know, and, you know, like a berserk type of, you know, warrior.

And that was when, that to me is a war crime.

That is when the Wehrmacht lost its innocence in that push of Rommel through the French countryside.

Because you don't do that.

You know, your enemy is sleeping.

Because the French also had a drug regulation.

They received three quarters of a liter of red wine per man per day.

So, of course, at night they're going to be sleepy on red wine.

And the Germans were like on meth and they were just running over them.

There's descriptions of the chains of the tank becoming bloody.

I don't think he did it.

He was like, oh my God, what did I just do?

I'm sorry.

You know, what am I doing here?

He was in the...

in the movie, you know?

I mean, what Evans, for example, said is that I excuse the Germans of the war crimes because they were just in an intoxication.

I understand that argument.

But if you look at individual soldiers, it's quite tricky.