"Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's" Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Aug 2020 9:05 p.m. PST |
…Revenge, April – May 1945 by Eric Lee "Eric Lee's "Night of the Bayonets" attempts to cover the uprising on Texel Island by a battalion from the Georgian Legion. In April 1945 some 800 Georgians turned on the Germans, massacred several hundred in the night with knives and bayonets, and went on to continue resisting German attacks and searches until the end of May, by which time some 228 men were able to survive. The first time I came across any references to this incident was in Michael Jones's "After Hitler." I was fascinated to learn that such an incident occurred and more so that many of these men were not punished like many others who were handed over by the Western Allies to the Soviet Union at the end of the war. Why some or all of them were able to escape severe punishment that many others who served in the Wehrmacht suffered is still a question without an adequate answer…"
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