This was a question posted on Quora Digest.
What did the German soldiers of WWII think of British, US, Canadian, and Soviet soldiers?
The person who answered, claims to have interviewed a survivor of the 276th Volksgrenadier Division
I don't have any comments or observations I care to share, but I thought it was interesting, and thought some of you might also.Americans: "Enthusiastic amateurs with a disposition to aggression I'd never seen in any other nation's sons." If there was something he noticed different between Americans and the other European Allies, it was how they reacted to an attack. The other allies would immediately return fire and edge their way to a more favorable position. Americans would immediately return fire, bring a punishing rain of artillery or air power on top of whatever they were fighting, and move to counterattack as soon as the rain of death ended. While he did not believe that an American infantryman or tanker was particularly skilled compared to British or German counterparts, they more than compensated for it with sheer, unadulterated, unapologetic combat aggression.