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Quote:The division, with 20,540 personnel, first saw action on 7 June 1944 as part of the German defense of the Caen area during the Normandy campaign. The battle for Normandy took its toll on the division and it came out of the Falaise pocket with a divisional strength of 12,000 men.
Following the invasion battles, the division was sent to Germany for refitting. On 16 December 1944, the division was committed against the US Army in the Battle of the Bulge. After the failure of the Ardennes offensive the division was sent east to fight the Red Army near Budapest. The 12th SS eventually withdrew into Austria; on 8 May 1945, the surviving 10,000 men surrendered to the US Army at Enns. At 7:20 am, Captain McLean reported that two lieutenant colonels and a major approached troops of Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart, announcing that within two hours the end of their column would reach the city.
The reputation of the division has been affected by war crimes committed by members of the division during the early battles in Normandy.
So..not only were they losers they were also criminals.
So, the guy touting Christianity as the only thing holding civilization back from savagery is fond of a Nazi?
<insert corny irony meter joke here>
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
(June 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm)professor Wrote: Art, the user name you go by here sounds kind of incriminating.
Might be just a subliminal thing, but why did you choose such a handle?
I was impressed with his bio and the fact that he did not commit "CRIMES" during his tenure ,working hard in the 3rd.Reich.. His hands were clean...
He was arrested in December 1945 when a Nazi underground movement which he had been organizing, was uncovered. A Nuremberg de-Nazification court sentenced him in May 1949 to a prison sentence of 3 years and three months as a 'major offender'. Axmann subsequently worked as a sales representative in Gelsenkirchen and Berlin. On 19 August 1958, a West Berlin de-Nazification court fined the former Hitler Youth Leader 35,000 marks (approximately 3,000 pounds), about half the value of his property in Berlin. The court found him guilty of indoctrinating German youth with National Socialism right until the end of the Third Reich, but concluded that he had been a Nazi from inner conviction rather than base motives.
He was found not guilty of having committed any crimes during the Nazi era.
Unlike his namesake here in the Atheist Forums era.