Talk of the Germans' ‘wounds of memory’ seems to suggest that their pain results from having suffered in the Second World War. The idea that Germans should ‘never again’ wage war could be seen to derive from this, from the desire to avoid such suffering in future. The previous chapters perhaps supported such an interpretation. War was represented as something that in some way ‘came over’ Germans as civilians. This, however, is at best a truncated representation of German memories of the Second World War and the wounds associated with them. This chapter considers a different aspect, and one that some may regard to be ‘war itself’, namely the experience of soldiers. Memories of the soldiers' war are no less controversial and emotional than are those of the effects of the war on civilians, especially where the issue of Wehrmacht crimes is concerned. Chapter 2 noted that the issue of Wehrmacht atrocities was central to the Kohl doctrine, but was concealed or at least de-emphasised in the argument made in support of Bundeswehr deployments to Bosnia in 1995. This problematic is examined here from a different angle. The atrocities in question and their significance for how Germans remember the Second World War have not been discussed so far. Taking this aspect into account makes it possible to appreciate that the ‘wounds of memory’ are not just about the suffering which might be seen as inflicted by others but also about the guilt surrounding the Germans' horrific actions in the past.