In the late John Jacobs’ book, “The Longer You Live, Remembrances of John Wesley Jacobs Jr.,” he recounts an episode he experienced as a young Army lieutenant during the last year of World War II in Germany. He was checking out a building in a town when a German Wehrmacht lieutenant came out, hands in the air. The German indicated that he and his platoon wished to surrender to the U.S. Army.
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