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Subject: Germany's 'last' WWI veteran dies
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/08 at 12:21 pm
The man believed to have been Germany's last World War I veteran has died peacefully at the age of 107.
Erich Kaestner, who at 18 was sent to the Western Front but served only four months in the army, died in a Cologne nursing home, his son said.
The death on Sunday of Louis de Cazenave, France's second-last World War I veteran, made global headlines.
But in a country that keeps no record of its veterans, Kaestner's death on 1 January went largely unnoticed.
"That is the way history has developed," said Peter Kaestner, the soldier's son. "In Germany, in this respect, things are kept quiet - they're not a big deal."
Full report on BBC News Online
Subject: Re: Germany's 'last' WWI veteran dies
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 01/26/08 at 4:44 pm
so long Erich Kaestner http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_salut.gif
Subject: Re: Germany's 'last' WWI veteran dies
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/08 at 5:36 pm
Wikipedia has the German Soldier under a different name, there is another soldier that still survives?
Surviving veterans of World War I