24 July 2013

The Death Of SS General Ernst Fick


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Date: Sunday, 29 April 1945
Place: Murnau, Southern Bavaria, germany
Photographer: Unknown

On April 29, 1945, during the Murnau Oflag (Offizierslager) VII-A assembly, a plane with Polish insignia had appeared in the sky, circled above the assembly square, tried to signal something and went away. Soon on the road to the camp appeared American tanks. At the same time from the other side of Murnau, two German cars approached. They stopped upon noticing the tanks. Germans had been taken by surprise. SS officer in the first car opened fire from the machine gun, at the same time his companion jumped out of the vehicle. Both men were killed on a spot by the Americans (SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve Max Teichmann and SS-officer Widmann). The same fate met the passangers of the second car. Among the dead Germans was SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Ernst Fick (in the above picture lies at left, while at right is his driver with the rank SS-Untersturmführer) who rides in the second car. His briefcase contained the letter signed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. It was an order to kill all 5,000 Polish POW officers encamped in Murnau! To execute this task Fick had had at his disposal an SS group in 40 armoured vehicles that started from Münich. Most likely the SS-man intended to assemble the POWs and killed them with the machine guns fire from guard's towers. After finishing off the Germans, one of the Americans' tank smashed the entrance gate and entered the assembly square. The representative of POWs welcomed American soldiers. He had addressed them in English. The commander of the tank shook his head and answered in Polish: " My name is Szewczyk, we came to liberate you". He was from Kalisz, Poland!

Source:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackgroundXXL/a26823/l16/l0/F.html
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=196178
http://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/thread.php?threadid=4895
http://www.sppw1944.org/index.html?http://www.sppw1944.org/powstanie/powstanie_oboz_eng.html









10 comments:

  1. Germany & Japan started the war. They got what they were trying to do too the rest of the world, destroyed!

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    1. Dante....your reply was quite possible the single most ignorant rant I have ever seen in print. Do you have any education al all?

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  2. read people read.. history is written by winners

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  3. It's funny how you call Ardenz grossly misinformed and under-educated when he posted historical facts and referenced numerous books and your only argument against his is that he's a neo-nazi and a idiot.

    You really made your intelligence show, sunshine.

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  4. горе побежденным... историю пишут победители

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  5. Mar 31, 1939 Britain and France openly pledged to defend Polish independence. On Aug 25, a formal defense pact was signed. This caused Hitler to hesitate, postponing his invasion. While it is true that Hitler only invaded Poland on Sept 1, and might like to claim that B & F declared war on him, not he on them, it is a long established fact that a defense pact means “an attack upon one is an attack upon all”. This is nothing new. It is the whole purpose of a pact. It would be the same today. If a member of NATO were invaded, an attack upon one would be an attack upon all. By invading Poland, in full awareness of the pact, Hitler was attacking B & F, too. But, Hitler was a gambler. He thought he could quickly change the facts on the ground (not as quickly as he hoped, as it turned out) by mercilessly destroying Poland and getting the S.U. to serve as his partner in crime. If B & F wanted to liberate Poland, now, not only would they have to revive a dead horse, they would have to push Germany and the S.U. out, too. He expected the British would back down and accept the erasure of Poland as a fait accompli. He expected that the deader Poland was, the more likely Britain would back out, considering the pact de facto null and void. But, Hitler did not take into account the strength of the British sense of honor, as it existed in those days. It was a difference in character the thuggish Hitler could not comprehend. And, yes, even though the war had already begun, the British went through the civilized legal formalities of sending an ultimatum, followed, when unanswered, by a declaration of war -- while Hitler just attacked. But this is no way a point in Hitler's favor. It is just a further illustration of the differences between Hitler and his adversaries.

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  6. Its not numbers, but economic power BM Rothschilds own US Fed, Bank Of England, Israel itself, and controlling interests in all Fortune 500 industries. Turn on your TV, that tiny bunch of' Chosen People ' ,are on every program . Are you one ? Or just one if there Gentile slaves, they call ' the Goyim '

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  7. Aren't you a chuckle head . None of the books or real history references are ' Neo Nazi '....your sources are from Jew Hollywood old man. Look around you? The Christ killers even own your little brain! ' Clearly he is a Neo Nazi ." You write like a fool ,and are one to, like the author of this bunk article. ' Polish Plane circling ' ' Orders to kill prisoners '. Prove it . Trash US soldier standing there . Your trash.

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  8. @T. Agee Kaye, you'll have to look further back than ww1 and what happened to Germany after ww1. German citizens were being exterminated in Danzig nowadays Gdansk. Which caused hitler to invade to put a stop to it. They dug up the massgraves and tried to show the world look at what has been happening.

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