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Last tank battle of cologne2/22/2024 ![]() ![]() But they suffered just like the guys in the modern wars. "You don't think a WWII veteran as holding onto something like this. Tank duel at the Cologne cathedral March 06, 1945. "And so the more he watches the film, the more he replays it in his mind, the deeper it sinks, and now it's part of him," said Makos. ![]() While working on the book, Adam Makos also developed a friendship with Smoyer, and tried to help the man he sees as a war hero come to terms with the past. The former fighters from both sides were united by the fear they'd been the one who'd killed Katharina Esser. Inside the German tank, which also fired toward Esser's car, was bow gunner Gustav Schaefer, whom Smoyer met years after the war, and befriended. ![]() You have German soldiers and snipers moving through tunnels, through the walls of the houses, and then on top of that you have to worry about a German tank coming around the corner." They're worried about Germans dug into the basement. "I think there was something about Cologne," said Makos. ![]()
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