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WWII Batlle where Germans joined USA soldiers against the SS
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Amazing story. Really does need to be made into a movie. 
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WHY IS THIS NOT A MOVIE!!??!?
Somebody get Stephen Spielberg onto this at once!!
Somebody get Stephen Spielberg onto this at once!!
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I'm sure Hollywood has already done this, though of course it only included the Americans...
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That is truly one of those tales that would be laughed at as improbable if presented as fiction.
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Oh, I'll be reading this! Wow!
Not mentioned in the above article is that not only Wehrmacht, but also one Waffen-SS officer named Kurt-Siegfried Schrader (who was recovering in Itter Castle from wounds sustained on the Eastern Front) joined the Americans against the SS. Schrader actually became Lee's second-in-command and reportedly had grown "vehemently anti-Nazi" and desillusioned by his wartime experiences.
http://www.slate.fr/story/73693/chateau-itter-nazis-liberation (French article but lots of photos of the persons involved!)
A rare case for a Waffen-SS officer. Although there also were some cases of Waffen-SS who switched sides on the Eastern Front and joined the pro-Soviet "National Committee Free Germany", which was otherwise consisting of Wehrmacht ex-POWs and some emigré German communists.
http://www.slate.fr/story/73693/chateau-itter-nazis-liberation (French article but lots of photos of the persons involved!)
A rare case for a Waffen-SS officer. Although there also were some cases of Waffen-SS who switched sides on the Eastern Front and joined the pro-Soviet "National Committee Free Germany", which was otherwise consisting of Wehrmacht ex-POWs and some emigré German communists.
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