I found an interesting AMERICAN cartoon of the checks that Germany put in place to control Hitler back in 1932. It did not work out well for them.
Posted on 05/13/2013 1:16:46 AM PDT by Kartographer
The most extraordinary things about this truly incredible tale of World War II are that it hasn’t been told before in English, and that it hasn’t already been made into a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Here are the basic facts: on 5 May 1945—five days after Hitler’s suicide—three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion of the U.S. 12th Armored Division under the command of Capt. John C. ‘Jack’ Lee Jr., liberated an Austrian castle called Schloss Itter in the Tyrol, a special prison that housed various French VIPs, including the ex-prime ministers Paul Reynaud and Eduard Daladier and former commanders-in-chief Generals Maxime Weygand and Paul Gamelin, amongst several others. Yet when the units of the veteran 17th Waffen-SS Panzer Grenadier Division arrived to recapture the castle and execute the prisoners, Lee’s beleaguered and outnumbered men were joined by anti-Nazi German soldiers of the Wehrmacht, as well as some of the extremely feisty wives and girlfriends of the (needless-to-say hitherto bickering) French VIPs, and together they fought off some of the best crack troops of the Third Reich.
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I found an interesting AMERICAN cartoon of the checks that Germany put in place to control Hitler back in 1932. It did not work out well for them.
That would make a hell of a movie.
Ping to an unusual bit of history.
The unexplained part of the event is whether the Nazis who were attacking Schloss Itter were under orders due to the high value targets inside (or perhaps the need to suicide some of their own diehard fighters), or just there lashing out by chance at a remote outpost where they had the last numerical advantage of the war.
Who would have even *known* that the Dachau outpost had some American soldiers inside? No U.S. flag was flown above the castle, though the U.S. tank would have been appropriately marked (gotta get close to know that, though).
Happenstance or under orders?
Reading Band of Brothers, the American GIs found out they had more in common with the German people than any other group of people they encountered after the war.
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Thanks Kartographer. Page on the 17th Waffen SS, Wiki-wacky's list of Waffen SS divisions. |
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Hindenberg needed a small party to partner with in order to form a gov’t, and selected the Nazis, reassuring his colleagues, “don’t worry, I can handle Hitler.” Oops.
12th Armored Division, 23rd Tank Battalion, Company A
http://www.12tharmoredmuseum.com/mb/default.asp?forums=12th%20Armored%20Division&topic=511
If you don't know who he is look him up.
Talk about a guy who gave the Japs fits!
IIRC, the liberal dream of broad democracy and a fecundity of small parties had finally arrived in Germany. It was that splintering of German politics into minute identity groups that allowed the Nazis to win a minority-majority election.
Not learning from history...
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The place is near the famous Kitzbuhel ski resort.
Meanwhile, Von Papen was using Hitler to get back at his rival Von Schleicher. And Hitler took advantage of the bickering to engineer a behind-the-scenes coup.
Great post!
Wow! What an amazing story. Yes, it would make a great pic, but Hollywood would turn it into a distortion.
...and the protaganist/hero would be gay.
If I recall correctly, there was a young paratrooper involved in that operation by the name of Rod Serling...
Good that you are aware that Rod Serling was a member
of the 511PIR. However, he was attached to Headquarters Co.
The specific company which parachuted on Los Banos was B Co
which, by the way, was commanded by Lt John Ringler. Johnny
Ringler had previously served as a Lt in H Co & was paymaster.
My father served as his bodyguard on paydays.
Serling was not involved in the Los Banos Raid. At the time he
would have been with the rest of 511th fighting on the southern
outskirts of Manila. Having stated all that I would have to add that
B Co was fortified with additional mortar and machine gun teams.
It is this caveat that has made it possible for all sorts of people
to claim that they made the Los Banos jump.
On another Serling related note, a biographer stated that Rod
was on the regimental boxing team. My father was also on the
boxing team and never recalled him even though they would
have been the same wt class. Boxing coach (and future pres of
the intl trial lawyers assn) Foster Arnett, didn’t recall Serling
either. I posess a 511th yearbook with photos of all of the
original 511th troopers by company and Serling’s photo is
included. The 511 vets formed an assn in the early 80s and
began having regular reunions. Unfortunately Rod Serling
had passed away in app 1974.
You are probably sorry you brought it up.....!
World War II movies are so... ‘America-when-America-was-still-America’ -ish.
Nothing about this story would interest liberal Democrat Hollywood.
Ubama has been elected and re-elected.
Nowadays we have a sodomized, feminized military and a socialist welfare state populated by moochers, cretins, ingrates, and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors so that it may be “redistributed” to them in exchange for their votes.
It’s the new, Democrat America. Congratulations to the Democrats.
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