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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

6 posted on 01/15/2012 8:00:23 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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Must have been the "SS-class."

32 posted on 01/15/2012 1:58:04 PM PST by x
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My dad was assigned to the demilitarization of Germany in the summer and autumn of 1945.

He told me a story about how some guys in his unit found one of those big three-axle open cars the Nazi bigwigs used to ride around in, hidden in a haystack in western Germany somewhere -- it was all tricked out for the upper crust of the Reich with flag fixtures, just like in your posted photo. I think he told me it was a Daimler-Benz. (They also drove Auto Union [Audi] and maybe Bayerische Motoren Werke [sp. -- BMW], which were all semi-statal companies. Add the thoroughly Nazi Volkswagen, and you have the present fleet.)

Those American airmen drove the dog out of that big Benz -- had a real blast, roaring up and down the Autobahn at 100 mph.

36 posted on 01/16/2012 4:35:27 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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