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The US Army & German Wehrmacht VS Waffen SS - Battle for Castle Itter 1945
On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. teamed up with a number of Wehrmacht soldiers under German major, Josef ...
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German envoy to visit Dutch cemetery with SS soldiers’ graves
The Waffen SS was an elite Nazi unit whose men are ... forces’ casualties and Holocaust victims, but also to the German soldiers. Organizers of such events have justified them as promoting ...
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Remains of soldier killed in Nazi war crime returned to Bay Area, memorial planned Friday
The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during ... indicating he was captured and killed by German SS troops and buried in a local cemetery in the town of Kamp-Bornhofen ...
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SS soldiers’ names to be removed from Dutch Holocaust monument
The inclusion of the German soldiers’ names was discovered ... amid protests to allow the 15-year-old relative of a Dutch SS soldier who died on Germany’s Eastern Front to read a poem in ...