Ernie Pyle, a well known WWII news Correspondent, was known for writing about the average GI. He didn't write about the strategy and the campaigns. He wrote about the guy slogging through the mud and dodging bullets to get back home. He knew the GI's because he lived with them, and eventually died with them.

In one of his books, he tells the story of a German soldier who had been taken prisoner. This German soldier had been told horrible s…