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Saturday, December 2, 2023

Making News

News around the globe and in your back yard.  Local News as observed by The Tentacle writers who live in Frederick County. Real news, by real citizen journalists.

Frederick Has A German Heritage, But Nazis?

On a snowy day at the end of 1944 my grandfather, a country boy from Rockville, who was all of 18 took part in the Battle of the Bulge. He killed Nazi’s. More specifically, he took out several SS members (Schutzstaffel; “Protection Squadron” in English).