Showing posts with label 8 Uniform Denazification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8 Uniform Denazification. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Postwar Photo of Paul Behr

A postwar photo of Ritterkreuzträger Paul Behr (9 May 1910 - 11 December 1990). He ereceived the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 28 March 1945 as Hauptmann der Reserve and Chef 13.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / Füsilier-Regiment 39 / 26.Volksgrenadier-Division. Hauptmann Behr particularly distinguished himself in the time period 23-25 January 1945 by successfully carrying out a difficult operation against superior enemy forces while fighting in the Lausdorn area (specifically around Hills 495 and 517). He would subsequently be awarded the Ritterkreuz as a result.


Source :
Dietmar Feldmann photo collection
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4913523341994844&set=gm.928604020968371

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Otto Skorzeny being Interrogated after Surrender

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny being interrogated by U.S. officers on May 1945. Skorzeny was interned for two years before being tried as a war criminal at the Dachau trials in 1947 for allegedly violating the laws of war during the Battle of the Bulge. He and nine officers of the Panzerbrigade 150 were tried before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Dachau on 18 August 1947. They faced charges of improper use of U.S. military insignia, theft of U.S. uniforms, and theft of Red Cross parcels from U.S. POWs. The trial lasted over three weeks. The charge of stealing Red Cross parcels was dropped for lack of evidence. Skorzeny admitted to ordering his men to wear U.S. uniforms; but his defence argued that, as long as enemy uniforms were discarded before combat started, such a tactic was a legitimate ruse de guerre. On the final day of the trial, 9 September, F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, a former British SOE agent, testified that he and his operatives wore German uniforms behind enemy lines; the Tribunal acquitted the ten defendants. The Tribunal drew a distinction between using enemy uniforms during combat and for other purposes including deception and were unable to prove that Skorzeny had given any orders to actually fight in U.S. uniforms.


Source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Skorzeny
http://www.historicalwarmilitariaforum.com/search/?q=skorzeny&type=forums_topic