Posted on 05/30/2018 5:12:22 AM PDT by harpygoddess
"Well, the supermen marched us, without food, water or sleep to Limberg, a distance of about sixty miles, I think, where we were loaded and locked up, sixty men to each small, unventilated, unheated box car. There were no sanitary accommodations -- the floors were covered with fresh cow dung. There wasn't room for all of us to lie down. Half slept while the other half stood. We spent several days, including Christmas, on that Limberg siding.
On Christmas eve the Royal Air Force bombed and strafed our unmarked train. They killed about one-hundred-and-fifty of us. We got a little water Christmas Day and moved slowly across Germany to a large P.O.W. Camp in Muhlburg, South of Berlin. We were released from the box cars on New Year's Day. The Germans herded us through scalding delousing showers. Many men died from shock in the showers after ten days of starvation, thirst and exposure. But I didn't.
Under the Geneva Convention, Officers and Non-commissioned Officers are not obliged to work when taken prisoner. I am, as you know, a Private. One-hundred-and-fifty such minor beings were shipped to a Dresden work camp on January 10th."
In Dresden they were imprisoned in an underground slaughterhouse known by German soldiers as "Schlachthof Fünf" (Slaughterhouse Five), which, of course, he used 25 years later as the title and organizing principle of his best-known book. During the bombing of Dresden, which took place in four raids between February 13th and 15th, the subterranean nature of the prison saved their lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at vaviper.blogspot.com ...
He was a rifleman in the 106th Infantry Division that had two of its infantry regiments surrounded by the Germans during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge. The two regimental commanders ordered the surrender of their soldiers because of being cut off.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/106th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
http://www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART.htm
Hillarious!
A very underrated 80s comedy. The triple lindy!!
Friend of mine has the book he wrote of roughly the same title. Perhaps I should borrow it sometimes ... perhaps not. I’m not entirely sure I care for his writing style.
bkmk
The left always gets just about everything wrong. And the only way you can do that, is if you always know what the correct choice is and you never take it. Such is the life of a lefty.
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