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Some more info on the ‘clean Wehrmacht’ - presentation by archivist of the German federal archives on what can be found in the archives. #wehrmacht #heer #warcrimes #WW2 https://training.ehri-project.eu/sites/training.ehri-project.eu/files/3c%20Quellenkunde_Milit%C3%A4risches_Schriftgut_0.pdf
Slide 27: 6./IR724 shoots 50 (fifty) hostages in Serbia because one of its soldiers was wounded by a headshot.
Slide 28/29: Starodub rear sector. After an attack on a patrol in which 3 soldiers were executed, I./AR156, 56. Infanteriedivision, ‘clears’ a village with a number of dispersed Red Army soldiers and where both soldiers and civilians had engaged the patrol http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArtReg/AR156-R.htm
Orders are to kill everyone. 68 men and 60 women are duly executed. It is then noted that the 60 children with an average age 2-10 could not be left to themselves. So the German gunners shot them all too. I presume older children were considered adults. http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/56ID-R.htm
The battery commander Hauptmann Friedmann signed the report. The handwritten note states that the divisional commander, General Karl von Oven, endorsed the actions by the Battery.
Von Oven died in 1974 and as far as I can see was never prosecuted. http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/O/OvenKarlv.htm
Hauptmann Theodor Friedmann died shortly after, during the winter battles. He had received the German Cross in Gold on 30 November, showing that shooting 60 children would not make you ineligible for decorations in the Wehrmacht. https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/4662/Friedmann-Theodor.htm
None of this is a surprise to me, by the way.
So the next time someone comes along and tells you that the ‘normal’ Wehrmacht was clean and not involved in the nastiness of the Nazis and the SS you can tell them to go and well and truly fuck themselves.
Thread on another war crime. https://twitter.com/battlefieldben/status/1223985102327291904?s=21 https://twitter.com/BattlefieldBen/status/1223985102327291904
Thread on another war crime by a Heer Unit. #grossdeutschland this time https://twitter.com/pgdivgd/status/1158318692356296706?s=21 https://twitter.com/PGDivGD/status/1158318692356296706
Another one. https://twitter.com/proftonypollard/status/1224410508104753155?s=21 https://twitter.com/ProfTonyPollard/status/1224410508104753155
Unverified German occupation troop #warcrime on #Crete, October 1941, found in AIR27/998 Appendices of No. 148 Squadron @RoyalAirForce
https://twitter.com/crusaderproject/status/1258090017727143936?s=21 https://twitter.com/crusaderproject/status/1258090017727143936
Another one Captain N’Tchoréré of the Tirailleurs Sénégalais in 1940 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N%27Tchoréré
#luftwaffe involvement in forced deportation and executions in the borderlands of #Poland and #Belarus. https://twitter.com/BloodPhilip/status/1321115346661707778
