NAZI AIRMEN’S FUNERALS
ENGLISH WRITER’S COMMENT.
The camaraderie of the air is an admirable thing, but I am not sure that it is not sometimes carried unduly far, writes ".Janus" in the “Spectator.” Here is a provincial paper’s account of the funeral of four members of the crew of a Heinkel which was shot down by a British fighter. The coffins, I read, were covered with huge Nazi flags of red and white with black swastikas (where were they procured?) and, having reached the cemetery in hearses, were taken over by members of the R.A.F.. who carried them a considerable distance to the graves. An escort was provided by a party of Empire airmen. The usual English burial service was road, a volley was fired by members of the R.A.F., the “Last Post" and “Revielle” were sounded, an R.A.F. officer saluted at the graveside, and the R.A.F. men who had formed a square round the grave during the service marched away. If it is a choice between honouring and dishonouring Nazi airmen, let it by all means be the former, but a middle course—a decent private interment —seems to fit the case better than either.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 2
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195NAZI AIRMEN’S FUNERALS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 2
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