Something For History Buffs ...

[Flashermac]

The Strangest Battle of WWII: When Americans and Germans Fought the SS Together

 

 

Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Andrew Roberts on a story so wild that it has to be made into a movie.

 

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There are two primary heroes of this—as I must reiterate, entirely factual—story, both of them straight out of central casting. Jack Lee was the quintessential warrior: smart, aggressive, innovative—and, of course, a cigar-chewing, hard-drinking man who watched out for his troops and was willing to think way, way outside the box when the tactical situation demanded it, as it certainly did once the Waffen-SS started to assault the castle. The other was the much-decorated Wehrmacht officer Major Josef ‘Sepp’ Gangl, who died helping the Americans protect the VIPs. This is the first time that Gangl’s story has been told in English, though he is rightly honored in present-day Austria and Germany as a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance.

 

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http://www.warhistor...t-together.html

[Flashermac]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Castle_Itter

[Dexi]

Amazing - sounds like something out of '' Kelly's Heros ''.

[Flashermac]

And the poor bastard got killed by the Nazis when he was defending Frenchies.