Nazi propaganda has taught the world to think of Hitler's armies as inhumanly efficient masses. Last week in mourning Germany, Berlin's propagandists changed key, began trying to humanize the common soldier of the Wehrmacht. In doing so, they allowed one Bert Naegele to speak for the young men in the winter snows:
"It's a long time when you're young, full of plans and burning to 'mold life' with your own hands. Years are flying past us; we are getting older. There's a big hole in our lives.
"War is a reality we have come to know intimately in three long...
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