Posted on 01/20/2022 7:26:09 AM PST by C19fan
Drafted to fight in the German army during the Second World War, he bravely abandoned his post after nearly being executed when he refused to ambush a group of US soldiers.
Hardy Krüger, who has died aged 93, went on to find fame in blockbuster Hollywood films including A Bridge Too Far, the Flight of the Phoenix and the Wild Geese - before launching a second career as a popular author.
The star, who retired from the screen in the late 1980s, died at his home in California on Wednesday.
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So here we have a traitor in Hollywood that seemingly loved America. How odd. /half joking. R.I.P.
Hatari!
I remember him from the WWII movies. He was in a bunch of them.
One man’s traitor is another man’s hero. This guess it all depends on which side won the war.
RIP
“Traitors” from Leftist tyranny are our Patriots. Wish we had more of ‘em.
I will NEVER EVER forget both Hardy Kruger and the movie Flight of the Phoenix for personal reasons. It was the movie that was playing on the Ft Polk Cinema, and I went to see it the night before I was scheduled to go home , after going through 77 days total, Basic Training and then some, and was given an (honorable) Medical Discharge due to repeated episodes of rapid heartbeat, Saw it the night of April 24 1966. It was magical because of how it linked to my freedom.
“Flight of the Phoenix”! One of my favorite movies!
Who is editing the Daily Mail these days? “follow follow” from the text copied and pasted into a caption? “Jnr” for Junior?
This guy would have been at very oldest, 17 years old at the end of the war. Probably dragooned in the last months of the war for the “Volkssturm” or Home Guard.
He likely already saw his city destroyed by bombs, and knew the war would soon be over. The smart thing to do at that point was get to American lines.
Who wants to be the last person to die for Hitler?
Also, it was Jimmy Stewart staring in Flight of the Phoenix, and not John Wayne.
Classic.
My personal favorite performance of his, was Colonel Pottsdorf in Barry Lyndon.
Although this article says he retired from acting in the late 1980s, I swear he is one of the officers of the Red Octobsr (1991).
I was watching WAGES OF FEAR not long ago and there he was, one of the truck drivers driving nitro to a burning well. (no spoilers from me!).
Seriously? You count that as "your lucky break?".
No offense, but whole bunches of us considered military service an actual act of patriotism - and some, including unlikely me, spent 27 years serving our country in uniform.
I am sorry that you had a heart condition - but it is weird that you celebrate ditching military service.
Years ago, as a defense contractor working for the Marine Corps, I supported an older gentleman (originally German, but now an American citizen). We became good friends through a mutual love of history.
He had been one of those very young teenage boys swept up by the Nazis in the last desperate days of World War II in their vain attempt to stave off defeat. He described himself as mostly up-and-down in stature at the time but still short enough that the Mauser rifle he was given bumped him in the back of the head and the ankles when he marched.
After their very cursory training, he and some other boys were turned over to a grizzled old sergeant. He took one look at them and announced “this is murder.” The sergeant then proceeded to lead them West, evading German patrols along the way, until he could find some Americans to surrender to.
After the war ended, he worked for the Americans military and eventually qualified for immigration to the United States.
38th SS Division Nibelungen. Towards the end they were just grabbing boys and throwing them into the SS too with practically no training and shoddy weapons. I had an uncle who was forced into the Luftwaffe that way. Even when I was a kid he told me about the day a Luftwaffe officer came to his high school with a couple sergeants with schmeisser machine pistols to draft all the boys there. He was very specific about the machine pistols they were carrying.
“Flight of the Phoenix”! One of my favorite movies!’
yes; a tremendous movie...
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