Concentration camp guards and butchers of women and children, cloaked in the mantel of the German military. They were so hated, we wouldn't keep them as POWs, but instead turned them over to the Russians.
Thanks for the link! I read every word; it was fascinating. The Butchers may have been despised, but it sounds like they were hellacious fighters. I had no idea Hungarian forces fought w the Nazis. I may have to look further into that. Not sorry a bit that Stalin got custody of the last of the Division. Considering many of the core members had been drawn from Concentration Camp guards, it seems the least that cd be done for them.
Btw, that photo at the end of Eicke’s grave is spooky. I found this about him:
“The infamous commander of Dachau. He encouraged his concentration camp staff to live up to their death’s head symbol and treat Dachau’s prisoners with inflexible harshness.”
When it comes to his grave, here’s the modern day disposition of it:
Burial: Body lost or destroyed
[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8815023]
Fitting, that they no longer have any idea where that makeshift grave lies. Lost, as they say, to the mists of time.