German Field Marshal Beaten With His Own Baton!

Under normal circumstances, the surrender of a German

field

marshal

in World War II was quite a worthy occasion. When the war in Europe came to an end in early May 1945, many of Hitler's top commanders chose to surrender to the Western allies and among a host of generals. They were some of Hitler's most notable soldiers, the commanders of his armies, Hitler appointed 26 men to the exalted rank of

field

marshal

, from military geniuses like Irvin Rommel to military donkeys like Vilhelm Kitle. A Herman Guring was promoted one rank higher from Field Marshal to Reich Marshal to Hitler. He also elevated two naval officers to the naval equivalent of field marshal, the rank of grand admiral of the 28 men who were appointed field marshals or equivalent, some died before the end of the war, for example, roml forced to dispose of himself himself due to his participation in the war.

July conspiracy against Hitler o Fedon Bach died along with his wife and stepdaughter when his personal vehicle was closed by a New Zealand fighter near Hamburg on May 3, 1945. Fon Bach died of his injuries the following day, the first German field marshal who had been taken prisoner by the Allies was Friedrich Palus at Stalingrad on January 31, 1943, who had defied Hitler's expectations that he would end his life rather than surrender. At the end of the war there was a flood of field marshals falling into Allied hands. Field Marshal K ring, former commander of German troops in Italy Field Marshal Fon Rinstead former commander in the West Field Marshal Fon K one of them was aard mil a key figure in the Luft faffer Secretary of state in the Reich Ministry of Aviation from 1935 to 44 and inspector general of the Luft faffer from 1939 to January 1945, promoted by Hitler to field marshal on July 19, 1940, milk was in charge of most production and the supply of German aircraft from World War II.

In the First World War he had commanded a fighter wing although, curiously, he had never qualified as a pilot and instead was an observer flying in combat on the Western Front and in the post-war period he was a businessman in the aviation industry. and eventually became CEO of Luft Hanza. He secretly joined the nsdap in 1929 and took up his appointment as state secretary in the Ministry of Aviation in 1934. directly to guring but perhaps the most notable fact about milk was that he was half jewish his father was a jewish pharmacist in vilsen Guring stopped an investigation into Milk's family background that was being carried out and protected his helpful subordinate who went on to command Luther 5 during the invasion of Norway in 1940 and again during the Battle of France, under the terms of the racial laws.

In 1935, milk would not have been considered Jewish or sent to a concentration camp, since at that time the Nazis had decided that Judaism passed through women. line from mothers to sons, however, would have been in some danger and their life would have been difficult, but under Ging's protection it flourished and prospered, an example of Ging's famous saying, I decide who is Jewish. milk worked closely with Henrik Himler and the wder. SS to keep foreign workers under control in aircraft factories and insisted that in case of prisoner uprisings related to working conditions and poor treatment, the SS should burst in and shoot these foreign scum, as they called milk To their workers.

He also said to quote every 10th man must be chosen and every tenth man will be shot in front of the rest. End of quote. It appears that Milk had plans to take Ging's position as leader of the Lu Ruffer and in 1944 he allied himself with Himler and Propaganda Minister Gobles in an attempt. Hitler wanted Hitler to remove Guring from power, but Hitler refused to fire him when Guuring discovered that one of the trigger fingers was his subordinate. Grass was given milk, permanently placed on the reserve, a list of senior officers awaiting new appointments, or deliberately sidelined.

Arrangements to save his family and close staff from an all-expenses-paid trip to Siberia Fleeing west In early May 1945, the milk was in Zagan Castle outside the town of Noat, a small settlement in Sches Holin, in the far north of Germany. Near the new Nazi government of Grand Admiral Carl Der, next to the British occupation zone, a man with a reputation for using slaves and forced labor would have done well to avoid Noat in May 1945, but Milk didn't know that or more likely didn't care. No matter what had happened in the city in the port in Noat there were two ships, the Cap Arona and the Teck, both ships were full of prisoners from the Noen G concentration camp on May 3, 1945 in a tragic plane crash British typhoon. both ships had been attacked due to misleading intelligence reports high-ranking Nazis like Himler and others were trying to escape from northern Germany perhaps to Norway 4,600 prisoners on Cap Arona and 2,800 inmates on Teal Beck were killed several hundred more who were on barges They had not yet joined the ships and were disembarked by the SS before they fled, but the citizens of Noat along with the local vomm homeg guard militia and Creeks Marina sailors rounded up the remaining prisoners and shot around. of 300 in the city, including women and children.

Put on another ship, a victim of Allied air attack, Noat also contained its own concentration camp. The British commandos were rapidly approaching a city filled with dead, dying and wounded concentration camp prisoners and those who were not injured were in poor condition, barely clinging to life, the British first. The Commando Brigade was made up of units from both the Army and Royal Marines, some of the toughest and most effective troops in the field. Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group in the vanguard of the British advance from the beaches of Normandy to the Nazi state of Der in northern Germany.

Lord Lit's famous first Commando unit had landed on D-Day and had relieved the Gader troops who had captured Pegasus Bridge, and both Commando brigades had fought in many engagements across France to the Netherlands and then to Germany. crossing the River Ry at the end of March 1945, the Commandos now Advancing towards the Baltic was while the 1st Commando Brigade was acting as a mobile flank guard for the advance of the British Seventh Corps towards the River Elbe that their advance took them beyond a town called Bergen Bellson and its infamous Bellson concentration camp being liberated by the The British Army and many of the officers and men of the Commando Brigade saw first-hand the pitiful conditions of the surviving prisoners and the piles of unburied corpses like the American troops who liberated the Daka concentration camp in Bavaria.

Many were deeply impacted by what they saw forever coloring their lives. No one was more affected by what he had seen than the commander of 1st Commando Brigade, 36-year-old Brigadier Derek Mills Roberts. High-flying army man with a chest full of bravery medals and a notoriously short fuse. Mills Roberts was a lawyer by training, but joined the Commandos through the Irish Guards in 1940. The Commandos at this time were a new type of force designed to carry out small-scale raids. and harassing German garrisons on the coast of German-occupied France in March 1941. Mills Roberts participated in the largest commando raid yet on the Lon Islands in the Norwegian Arctic.

The main objectives of the invading commandos are the Nazi ammunition depots protected by the enemy machine gun nest. now the zappers place more dynamite cables at the business end then, in 1942, the disastrous deep raid into France, which earned him a military cross for bravery, he was promoted to leftist colonel and given command of the command number six. He fought in North Africa and received the Distinguished Service Order. in 1943 for his bravery and distinguished service in that challenging scene during the Normandy Landings. The Mills Roberts unit captured the town of Westrom and joined the British 6th Airborne Division on the eastern flank of Sword Beach, promoted to Brigadier during the campaign across north-west Europe and when given command of the 1st Commando Brigade , was horrified and upset again in May 1945 when his men captured Noat and found it filled with the same unfortunate concentration camp prisoners they had just seen in Bson, hundreds of corpses, most of them gunshot victims, lying unburied.

At Noat concentration camp and around the city, Mills Robert's nickname among the commandos was Bomb Mills, after the British standard bomb number 36. Pendant grenade Mills, a man not to be trifled with and that he has an explosive temper when he wakes up. Mills Roberts had just returned from helping the British. Doctors trying to care for sick and dying concentration camp prisoners arrived at their temporary headquarters set up in a restaurant in the town square in Noat. His staff told him that a German field marshal had arrived and that he wanted to see him. The man was, of course, Field Marshal Aard Milk, who had entered the city under a white flag in his official car accompanied by some of his aids dressed in full uniform and decorations and carrying in one gloved hand his insignia of rank, a folded marshal's staff, not The heavy jewel-encrusted ceremonial staff was used for very special occasions, but what is called a provisional staff, a more practical silver-topped ebonized staff that looked like a riding crop with a tassel, often he saw himself carrying his reiches.

Marshall's temporary walking stick for everyday use. Brigadier Mills Roberts was sitting at his desk when Milk, dressed in a large black leather coat over his Luft raffer uniform, held a makeshift

baton

in his right hand. Mills Roberts said nothing and pointedly did not rise in Milk's presence, a military courtesy that was generally extended almost universally between friend and foe when he approached high-ranking officers. He spoke English, Mills Roberts said, and his first words consisted of self-congratulation for not having surrendered to the Russians; in fact, he had been careful to leave his area of ​​occupation or influence and was glad to do so.

Surrender to us Mills Roberts in a bad mood after his experiences in the Bson concentration camps and Noat interrupted him and pointedly asked him about the prisoners in the camp. Milk was apparently very surprised by this line of questioning and also could not understand why Mills Roberts were so upset according to the Witnesses who were in the room and according to Milk's own diary things soon got very ugly according to Milk saying that Mills Robert told him. said that all German generals are criminal murderers guilty of the concentration camps Etc final quot and according to Other Witnesses responded that he belonged to the Luft army and had never had anything to do with the concentration camps before adding, although this is very discussed, the following in reference to the concentration camp prisoners who litter the city cites that they are not soldiers but Polish or Russian, they are not human beings by our standards.

End of quote. Some have argued that the last line was composed after the events to provide some reason for Mills Robert's violent outburst that followed and milk gave the impression in his diary that Mills Roberts did not need prodding. He began to attack him, whatever triggered Mill's bomb, the brigadier fired full force and lunged at the unsuspecting field marshal in the process, earning himself a place in military history, the only Allied soldier to ever attack to a German country swamp, in fact, Mills Roberts. Mills Roberts had slammed an empty champagne bottle on his desk several times to make his point while he demanded answers from Milk, and Milk had apparently tried to grab the bottle, presumably to stop the noise.

Mills Roberts, at this point, had jumped up, snatched the provisional B out of the milk and proceeded to hit him over the head with it. Milk was bleeding behind his left ear and the back of his skull and while the beating was being administered, he shouted milk at Mills Roberts, General, I'm an officer, a field marshal, aren't you ashamed? General, end of appointment, the temporary cane broke over his head and fell into pieces on the floor, then Mills Roberts broke it. He removed the cap from her head and threw it on the ground ordering quote, go get your cap.

End of the date while Milk Rose retrieved the cap from his uniform. Mills Roberts grabbed a bottle of champagne and tried to smash it into the field of Marshall's head, but Milk stopped the blow with his left forearm, which was severely bruised in the encounter, MillsRoberts stopped his assault and gained control of himself and members of Mills Roberts staff took the milk away. He was taken back to Castle Zagen, where British commandos then robbed him and his entire group at gunpoint at their valuables, including Milk's field marshal's ceremonial

baton

, before he was taken to a camp. in Lunberg.

Lunberg is now the headquarters of Field Marshal Montgomery Mills Roberts' 21st Army Group. Batman retrieved the broken pieces of Milk's makeshift staff from the office floor and put them away. as a souvenir, passing them on to Mills Robber's wife, who had the cane repaired post-war now, of course, Mills Robert's behavior was out of character. Because of that fact, there is no doubt that physical assaults on surrendered enemy personnel are not permitted and treating a very high-ranking enemy officer in this manner broke almost all rules and customs of behavior, but in Mills Robert's defense, the Commandos are by nature aggressive and direct men, which is in the nature of both their training and their wartime experience, and that aggression can sometimes be difficult to quench.

Mills Roberts was also a well-known hothead, he was known to have a very bad temper, hence his nickname and Mill underestimated the collective disgust and anger shared by many Allied soldiers over the atrocities of the concentration camp, let us not forget that during the liberation of Daau some soldiers Americans had lost control of themselves and shot surrendered SS soldiers in a massacre that was a war crime, for which Mills Roberts was punished. because his crime doesn't quite add up, see Montgomery the next day, the British leader apparently jokingly covered his head with his arms when Mills Roberts entered his command tent joking: I hear he has a thing for field marshals and Mills Roberts apologized for the incident, but Monty said. nothing further was taken about it, no action was taken against his fiery subordinate, in fact a month later Mills Roberts received a ban from his DSO, meaning a second award for his brave leadership of the Commando Brigade in the final months of the war, and Arard Milk was tried in Nernberg and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.

His sentence was later reduced to 15 years and, in fact, he was released in early 1954. He died in Dorf at the age of 79 in 1972. Mills Roberts died in 1980 at age 71. The widow put the field marshal's provisional staff restored with milk up for auction, but the milk family had an injunction placed on the auction claiming the staff was stolen; However, a British court ruled that the cane was legitimate war loot and it was sold at auction to a collector in Florida. However, I can't help but think of the Newberg trial that when Guing learned what Mills Roberts had done to milk the man who had tried to eliminate Guing, I'm sure a big smile crossed his face.

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