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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti
From the above, the date is 4 MAY 1945, not April.
It is amazing how much German soldiers were executed by their fellow countrymen in the first days of May 1945. Really a pity...
By the way, speaking from memory, I think that between 20 to 40 000 German soldiers (and officers, up to the rank of Marshall) were executed during the war by their own side.
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Most of them were killed by so called "Fliegende Standgerichte", word by word translated flying courts. At the endtime of war they drive around to find traitors, deserters and anyone who did not believe in final victory. Mostly it was the SS which executed these people. A very special edition of such a person was Generalfeldmarschall F. Schörner. His "flying courts" are well known....