tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post8138511901395555204..comments2024-03-26T20:24:07.900+01:00Comments on Stabswache de Euros - Cerrar el cielo: Liberating the Germans: Widespread Looting of Nazi MemorabiliaRobert Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10858091160498927131noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-49897617768303973892021-11-27T08:48:15.594+01:002021-11-27T08:48:15.594+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.tike mikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07646994462395287119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-81906281801789844962019-10-07T22:39:49.990+02:002019-10-07T22:39:49.990+02:00The looting by American, British, and Canadian sol...The looting by American, British, and Canadian soldiers became even worse when they entered Germany. American soldiers looted civilian possessions on a large scale. As Pfc. Richard Courtney of the 26th Infantry Division explained, “American soldiers loved to loot the German homes. We called it ‘liberating." Servicemen justified their actions by claiming wartime necessity, opportunities for profit or trade, keepsakes, and revenge. Charles Lindbergh wrote, "Everything they grab from a German house is liberated in the lingo of our troops. Leica cameras are liberated, food, works of art, clothes are liberated. A soldier who rapes a German girl is liberating her." Sergeant Raymond Gantter wrote on 23 April 1945, "Where we have passed, little remains – no cameras, no pistols, no watches, very little jewelry, and damn few virgins. We leave behind us a spoor of broken dishes, emptied fruit jars, and plundered, dirty houses."123.211.221.238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-33417680083643241012018-07-03T16:27:06.835+02:002018-07-03T16:27:06.835+02:00Sturmbannfuhrer Hans Hauser described the surrende...Sturmbannfuhrer Hans Hauser described the surrender of the remains of "Der Fuhrer" to US troops in a postwar interview with John Lucas: Otto Weidinger had his Oak Leaves torn from his throat and other comrades had their epauletttes and collar patches ripped off. Rings, cash and other things were taken and always accompanied by a mocking smile, the word 'souvenir' and a pointed pistol. I had nothing more to fear. I had nothing left, except my silver death's head ring and my wedding ring, both of which I had concealed in the heels of my jack boots during the night. When Sturmbannfuhrer Christian Thychssen, commander of "Das Reich", was fatally wounded in a rather unequal contest between his kubelwagen and a Sherman tank, and subsequently died in a US medical facility, his body was so thoroughly plundered of just about every artifact that might have identified him that this prominent, heavily decorated officer was buried as an "unknown".John Rutledgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510117578922408752.post-91823701517553230302012-03-06T23:31:29.184+01:002012-03-06T23:31:29.184+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Former enlisted veterannoreply@blogger.com