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Date: September 18th, 2018 11:58 PM
Author: Awkward excitant library travel guidebook

This passage describes volunteers from the French SS Division "Charlamagne" who agreed to fight their way into Berlin as it was being attacked by the Russians:

The column of two armoured personnel carriers and three heavily laden trucks set off for Berlin. They had heard that Soviet tanks had already reached Oranienburg, so Krukenberg decided to take a more westerly route. It was not going to be easy to reach Berlin. Everyone was going in the other direction, whether formed detachments, stragglers, refugees or foreign workers. Many Wehrmacht soldiers jeered at the ‘Charlemagne’ volunteers, telling them that they were headed in the wrong direction. Some tapped their temples to indicate that they were crazy. Others shouted that the war was as good as over.

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Kindle Locations 5383-5387). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Date: September 18th, 2018 11:59 PM
Author: Effete glassy locale



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Date: September 19th, 2018 12:22 AM
Author: Awkward excitant library travel guidebook

Krukenberg positioned half of the French under Fenet on the other side of the Hermannplatz with their panzerfausts to prepare for a Soviet tank attack. Fenet had over 100 Hitler Youth attached to his group. They were instructed to fire their panzerfausts only at close range and only at the turret. The Waffen SS believed that it was better to aim for the turret, as a direct hit there would disable the crew. During that evening and night, the French under Fenet accounted for fourteen Soviet tanks.

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Kindle Locations 5587-5588). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:46 AM
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The French ‘tank destroyer squads’ had played a particularly effective role in the defence. They accounted for about half of the 108 tanks knocked out on the whole sector. Henri Fenet, their battalion battalion commander, described a seventeen-year-old from Saint Nazaire, called Roger, who fought alone with his panzerfausts ’like a single soldier with a rifle‘. Unterscharfführer Eugène Vanlot, a twenty-year-old plumber nicknamed ’Gégène‘, was the highest scorer, with eight tanks. He had knocked out two T-34s in Neukölln and then destroyed another six in less than twenty-four hours. On the afternoon of 29 April, Krukenberg summoned him to the subway car in the wrecked U-Bahn station, and there, ’by the light of spluttering candle stubs‘, he decorated him with one of the two last Knight’s Crosses to be awarded.

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Kindle Locations 6469-6473). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:13 AM
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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:49 AM
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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: Effete glassy locale

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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:16 AM
Author: Awkward excitant library travel guidebook

But then, to everyone’s astonishment, a platoon of just over twenty Waffen SS commanded by a Belgian arrived. They were laughing, wrote another soldier present, ‘as if we had just won the war’. This group had come from a tank-hunting sortie round the Anhalter Bahnhof and claimed that it had now become ‘a tank graveyard’. An extraordinary comradeship of the damned had grown up among the foreign volunteers defending the last bastion of German nationalism. A Nordland section in the Air Ministry contained not just Scandinavians, but also three Latvians and ‘our two Ivans’, who were no doubt Hiwis absorbed into the fighting ranks.

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Kindle Locations 6732-6737). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Date: September 20th, 2018 2:03 AM
Author: Awkward excitant library travel guidebook

Krukenberg had meanwhile assembled most of his French SS escort. They joined up with Ziegler and a much larger group from the Nordland. Krukenberg estimated that there were four or five holders of the Knight’s Cross among them. They managed to cross the Spree shortly before dawn. But they came under heavy fire just a few hundred metres short of the Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station. Ziegler was hit by a ricochet and mortally wounded. Several others in their group also fell, among them Eugène Vanlot, the young French recipient of the Knight’s Cross. He died in a nearby cellar three days later.

Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Kindle Locations 7021-7026). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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