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Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád
OT: Pardon me, Boris, but how could this be a life insurance against partisans? He was still an ethnic German wearing a Luftwaffe (sorry, "Nazi") uniform. We know of many cases that e.g. Rumanian airmen wearing own uniform and speaking the local language (including colourful swearing) were almost beaten to death by the locals thinking that they were Soviet spies.
Or, something else. Wasn't an ethnic German automatically guilty to Tito's Communist partisans and potential candidate for summary execution?
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I got your point but he simply got away with it. How exactly I don't know. As far as I know there were no serious atrocities in this area by that time, which by the way was a part of Italy, and Italy capitulated a day earlier. Had he landed in an area controlled by Montenegrian or Herzegowinian partisans I assume he wouldn't have a chance to explain his intentions...