Just like the deep state....despite bad news, they keep doing bad things. I know the family of a 4 Star general who was put in charge of the Uropean Theater by Eisenhower as he prepped to go off to the pacific to fight Japan. His job was to mop up everywhere because many true believers wouldn’t buy it that Hitler was dead and vanquished.
My Father’s combat engineer battalion was sent into Berlin as part of the army of occupation.
He once said there were still occasional incidents between the Russians and Hitler Youth.
I recall some time ago reading that when the war ended, the Germans still occupied Northern Italy.
Okay, just wondering. If the US was attacked and our government quit, surrendered, do we have the right to continue to fight?
The not unsurprising model hiLIARy has used for her attempt to be President.
She lost but keeps fighting anyway.
My father had an old book from his father called “The Last Wolfpack” which told the story of four U Boats that escaped from a base in Norway to Argentina in late 1945. One of them was lost along the way but the other three made it, got their families ashore, and then took their subs out and scuttled them to hide their escape.
The leader’s name was an officer named Uffelman. I don’t recall if he was a navy officer and I think he wasn’t.
That’s what I remember of the book.
“JFK to 911 - Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” by Francis Conolly.
This is a history of the origins of the deep state from the time of the Robber Barrons in the 1800s and how the deep state developed from there up to the present.
He spends a lot of time deconstructing the JFK murder. The perpetrators seem to be known now, and the means and methods as well, which he explains in detail.
After this deconstruction he shows how the same dynamics are at play in other areas of concern which we have seen paraded before us may instances up to and including 9/11. The clip is about 3.5 hours, and worth every scary minute. He also goes into the way wars are created and manipulated.
Youtube has not outright banned it, but has one of those blue “CAUTION” things on it. “Use at your own risk, etc”
As I got into it, because I was not sure it would remain accessible, I took copious notes. I think every FReeper should consider viewing this because it fills in a LOT of blanks as to how the Robber Barrons continue to rig things and bleed us for their own pleasure and profit.
Al Gore 2000.
The first (and hopefully last) Presidential candidate to make a concession phone call and then call back later to renege on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234
He left out U-234, a German submarine carrying 1200lbs of Uranium to Japan along with an Me-262 jet fighter and a Henschel radio guided bomb.
Surrendered on May 14. The two Japanese officers on board chose suicide instead.
I was aware of certain German units who kept fighting because they didn’t trust surrendering to the Russians and kept working their way to US forces so they could surrender. They ultimately didn’t make, surrendered to the Russians where upon immediately executions happened and the remainder marched off the Russian camps where only 10% ever returned.
More like west of Dunkirk. And he's probably thinking of the River L'Aa., not As.
The German resistance group Werwolf (werewolf) which operated in behind enemy lines during the war and later in post-war Germany against the Allies. They were recruited from the SS and Hitler’s Youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIpmcDVMy1A
Two interesting books with stories about Wehrmacht soldiers holding out behind enemy lines are HITLER MOVES EAST and SCORCHED EARTH. Hundreds of thousands of them were cut off and trapped by rapid Soviet advances, many miles from the front in the late summer and fall of 1944. The front had had moved west into Polish territory and to the East Prussian frontier.
A few thousand made it back to the German side of the front with stories to tell.
My guess is that any conflicts in the Soviet zone of occupation were quickly resolved by pepesha
I read Otto Skorzeny’s book years ago in which he said a commando unit was trapped way behind Russian lines, and were moving to a lake where they were to be picked up by aircraft. They were never heard from again.
I like them, thanks!
Battle of Texel
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Fascinating post! Thanks!
Holdouts hold out. Just like McCabe and Brennan struck nearly instantaneously, after McCabe’s firing.
We fool ourselves thinking evil ends because we like chocolate.
Very nice post.