Hans-Ulrich Rudel - The Surrender of Germany's Most Decorated Ace 1945

Hunt's Ulrich Rudl was Germany's

most

decorated

ace in World War II; in fact, he was the only one to receive Germany's highest bravery award, the Knight's Cross with gilded oak leaves, swords and diamonds equal to a staggering five Knight's Crosses, and he achieved all this in the

most

unlikely plane. The Yonkers Ju 87 Stuka, the Stuka dive bomber, became famous during the German attack on France and the Netherlands in 1940, making precision strikes against ground targets and herring refugee columns, providing the airborne artillery necessary for success. of the new German fighting method called blitzkrieg or blitzkrieg during the Battle of Britain The Stukas bombed Britain's radar stations, but were also easy victims of the Royal Air Force's Spitfires and Hurricanes, vulnerable to modern fighters, students received a new life on the Eastern Front becoming a formidable tank destroyer and anti- Ship the Stuka which was amazing. 519 tanks claim to have destroyed one hundred and fifty artillery guns and even a sunken battleship and cruiser.

Along with 70 landing craft and 800 vehicles of all types, Rudl was also a politician, a devout National Socialist until the end of his days and a favorite of Hitler in February

1945

. Colonel Rudl was seriously wounded in the right foot and later His leg was amputated below the knee, but although his wound had not healed properly he flew again on March 25,

1945

. He even met his hero Hitler for the last time on April 19 in shattered Berlin. Rudolf fought until VE Day, knocking out another 26 Soviet tanks, but early on May 8, Rudl learned that the German armed forces had

surrender

ed. He had no intention of

surrender

ing to the Soviets and, instead, he decided to fly to the Americans and surrender along with the remaining pilots.

Hurried preparations were made to evacuate the Luftwaffe base at Coma Anze near Prague in Czechoslovakia. There was enough fuel left to reach an American air base at Kit Singin, home of the US 4th V Fighter Group, Ninth Air Force, Three Yonkers. 87 Stukas were available Rudolph lying down with his famous bird cannon Ju 87 G 2 there it was equipped with a 37 millimeter cannon under each wing along with four 190 valve fighter-bombers Rudl had another good reason to go to the Americans his right stump was still swollen and bleeding he believed the Americans would treat his wound he gathered the air crew and ground crew and gave them a short speech thanking them for their loyalty and courage he said goodbye to the ground crew who had headed west in trucks and then he flight of Stukas and 190 prepared to radio out of Rudl from the American 19th Tactical Air Command telling them it was coming to the US.

The command gave the order to the anti-aircraft units not to attack the approaching Luftwaffe planes, but The most important thing is that this information was not received by the American base in Kit Singing. The two thousand five hundred men of the 4th V Fighter Wing were lined up in parade formation on the field awaiting a flyover of their aircraft to mark VE Day. They were about to receive a completely different type of flyover that no one had anticipated. The 400 fifth 75 p -47 Thunderbolts all unarmed were not in the field they were 15 miles away forming for flight when the

rudel

flight suddenly appeared overhead, the unmistakable shape of the Stukas and 190 caused enormous unease among the American personnel who began to break ranks until they were ordered to stay put, many fearing that the Germans were about to launch some kind of last resort.

The Airfield Attack Rudl was determined to preserve the honor of his unit and had ordered his pilots to deliberately land their Stukas and 190s at the US airfield so that the enemy could not take the planes as prizes. The first plane the Stuka flew. by rudl he deliberately left the end of the runway falling on the soft ground towards Stukas and at 190 s 6 the ground made a loop or his landing gear collapsed the single-seat fighters of the 190 each carried a passenger tucked into a small space for equipment 1 190 landed perfectly and did not crash when the passenger got off it was a woman the Stukas were also overloaded, each with 3 people in total 6 of the 7 German planes crashed deliberately and 21 people left to surrender rue de Luca stopped and soon stopped He confronted an American, pointed a Colt 45 pistol at him, opened the hood where the American tried to snatch the Knight's Cross from around his throat.

Rudl pushed him away and closed the hood, only opening it again when a high-ranking American officer who spoke English arrived. Rudl identified himself by turning around. To the two thousand five hundred Americans still standing in the parade, Rudl thanked the American officer for ordering the search without realizing it was not in his honor. Hobbling on crutches, Rudl walked through the front row of Americans on his way to the parade. base aid station. putting on a great show, the intact people evolved 190 that had landed with the passenger was actually Rudel's personal plane that had flown combat sorties in the latter part of the war, he gave us pilots a tour of the plane that then it was tested Luckily for Rudl and his men, the Americans refused to hand them over to the Soviets.

Rudl entered captivity in the United States as a high-profile prisoner of war and was released in April 1946. In 1948 he went to Argentina through one of the infamous ratlines for Nazi war criminals who used a fake Cross passport. Roja named after Emilio Maia, although he was not a war criminal, Rudl is still a devout Nazi and actively helped real war criminals evade justice in Argentina and Paraguay, among many other places he befriended. former ss-hauptsturmführer dr. Josef Mengele helping to transport Dr. Mengele to Brazil and was a close friend of Argentine President Juan Perón and Paraguayan dictator General Alfredo Stroessner.

He was also a military advisor, an arms dealer to Bolivia, the Pinochet regime in Chile, and General Stroessner acted as a foreign representative for many West German companies, including Zeman's. Messerschmitt Fokker Wolf and Dornier even consulted on the development of the American anti-tank aircraft 10 Thunderbolt. Through Rudl, the CIA had contact with many former SS and through marked officers living in South America, both for espionage purposes and for technical reasons, and Rudl was also in contact with the extraordinary former SS commando Otto Skorzeny Rudl returned to West Germany in 1953 being a prominent neo-Nazi even running for elections and would also travel often to South America in 1977 he became spokesperson for the German People's Union Nationalist Party hammers involved in several major public scandals married three times Rudl died of a stroke on December 18, 1982 controversially during his funeral in Dorn, at the West German Luftwaffe residence, f4 ghosts made a low pass over his grave, the German government quickly denied that the flight was anything other than a training mission thanks for watching, subscribe and share, and also check out my new audiobook channel, war stories with Mark Felton.

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