12-257 Garand Picture of the Day

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[browningautorifle]

Well...they should have surrendered...SS licence plate? What is that vehicle exactly?

[Bill Hollinger]

1937 Skoda Superb Sodomka.




And another of the same scene

[Bob Seijas]

Looks like a Kasserne in the background, maybe the SS post at Bad Tolz? I'm told that facility had at least three floors below ground, the lower ones were flooded for fear of booby traps and not examined at least into the 1960's, maybe never.

[browningautorifle]

not examined at least into the 1960's

That's the same story I got from the older soldiers I served with.
The licence plates are very close...were these vehicles pictured in the same compound? Must be photos from the same set.

[Thumper]

I was stationed at Zweibrucken in the southwest of Germany. There were several buildings
on the base that had underground levels 5-7 stories deep, that were flooded at the end of the war, when we took over the base. At that time, they were still flooded [this was in the 80's] and they said they had no intention of ever draining them. I think sometime in the 90's we gave that base back to Germany [or so I heard]. I wonder if they pumped it out.

[Bob Womack]

From my readings I've heard that some Army units had such bad results with being civil and humane with the SS, traps, double-crosses, etc., basically terrorist tactics, leading to loss of U.S soldier's life, that they basically gave up and quit taking SS prisoners for safety reasons.

Bob

[Bob Seijas]

Man, I can just picture rows of STGs and FG42s rusting away down there

[browningautorifle]

Sad state of affairs alright. The stories from the old hands made me cringe even in the early '70's when they were only 10 years past. Those guys had been in the army of occupation and in 1960 and just before they were still finding cases of guns in bunkers. The flooded areas have probably since been sorted out, the GDR has an excellent ordnance disposal, as we all know. They would never tell the world. Remember, it didn't happen for the most part... I can imagine working in a building that had stagnant water underneath you, must have always had a musty smell.