wwii axis reenactment forum

This is a new one on me, never heard of this before - as one of the articles says, this would make a great film...!

Briefly, it is a battle a few days before VE-Day at Schloss Itter, a hilltop castle in Austria, which ran as a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp, housing French VIP POWs including former French Prime Ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, and Generals Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin.

The battle was notable because Wehrmacht Infantry fought alongside US units, against their former Waffen-SS colleagues...!! It took place between, on the one side, a small US Force including a single M4 tank and some African-American Infantry with Wehrmacht infantry (under a Major Josef ‘Sepp’ Gangl) and the French VIP prisoners themselves all fighting alongside each other under a !st Lt John C. ‘Jack’ Lee, Jr, of the U.S. Army, against, on the other side, a force of Waffen-SS....!!!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ether.html

More detailed article:

http://www.historynet.com/the-battle-fo ... -itter.htm

bit more:

http://www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.or ... /freed.htm

yes, soldiers have honour regardless of their country

it's gonna be a good read am gonna order it from Amazon or tescoe or something.

I'd like to get some personal witness from the guys attacking though? Why oh why did they still keep fighting?