British paratrooper whose grandfather fought for the Nazis would ‘love to turn back time’ and question him
A British paratrooper whose grandfather fought for the Nazis on D-Day has said he would “love to turn back time” and question him.
Captain Maik Biggs was among 250 soldiers from the Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade who landed on fields near Sannerville in Normandy on Wednesday (5 June), which was designated drop zone K on June 6 1944.
His grandfather Obergefreiter Gustav Koster, the equivalent of lance corporal, was stationed in Normandy with the German 915th Grenadier Regiment when the Allies invaded.
The unit was held in reserve near Bayeux and moved towards the beaches following the first sightings of the landing fleet.
Koster, who also fought on the Eastern Front, later became a prisoner of war before returning to Germany.
He died in 1998.
