Posted on 10/02/2014 4:16:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I just noticed the black swan heading over to peck the babies. Waterfowl are nasty!
The truth was covered up by Burckel’s doctor at the time, so impossible now to say for certain.
Burckel suffered from various ailments, brought on, it was said, by exhaustion — and no doubt by stress, but stress over what?
Certainly not fear that his corruption & pilfering might be discovered & punished, or his role in the Holocaust.
The reason instead seems to be his inability to carry out with great Nazi enthusiasm orders to build defensive structures which Burckel believed difficult to build and useless for stopping Allied forces.
Burckel was given full posthumous honors by Hitler, and immediately replaced by a Nazi with more enthusiasm for the assigned task.
And yes, Burckel was right — those structures had little effect in slowing down Patton’s army.
Thanks. It’s strange because this is way before the worst of the worst began thinking of suicide. Maybe he thought he had a terminal illness.
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