History is fascinating because those who track it have their own agenda and although we can rely
on most accounts to be somewhat factual, some finer points on what really happened lead us to believe otherwise.
A quick search of the bombing of Rotterdam in ww2 will lead us to believe the brutal attack
was just that. But read the info sites and start seeing discrepancies. Books and web sites state
Gen. Kurt Student was wounded there and convalesced for 8 months. Another site says he was shot by friendly fire with no further explanation. Yet another has more detail of an s.s. trooper
shooting him mistakenly from a window.You would think that someone who shoots a GENERAL
by mistake would have some press interest or the fact that no news comes from it at all especially under Nazi censorship is being covered up. The following story comes from one of the
most decorated and recognized dutch underground leaders who i met in Mexico.
Bridges are crucial targets in war. A soldier there sadly watched German paratroopers take over the city network bridges. He was upset how easily they scattered the small defending bridge guards. He left the bridge ramparts to escape captivity and laid low in the adjoining tulip fields.
Under the hot sun in an army coat and unable to move at all , even to take his coat off as he would be spotted from the bridge. Pondering his dilemma, he watched a small group of officers set up a table next to the bridge under its shadow. Spreading maps on the table ,it was obvious
these were high ranking officers and taking his time to sight the distance--he took a shot--
the officer slumped over the map table as his companions leaned over wondering why.
Another shot and the second casualty went down. The bridge noise covered his shots and he managed to scurry away from the field and crawl in a ditch until he could run fleeing the
errant shots as the German troops finally sensed the danger.
His second target was the air force general of all German paratroopers.
Hitler rushed to his bedside in the hospital-and was outraged- the city was taken, how did a general get shot after the hostilities? Leaving the ward he had only one thing to say--bomb
Rotterdam into rubble. The part time sniper was interviewed in 1957, he owned a sandwich shop.
Better no one knows what i did and what it caused, many people, my own, died, had i known....
on most accounts to be somewhat factual, some finer points on what really happened lead us to believe otherwise.
A quick search of the bombing of Rotterdam in ww2 will lead us to believe the brutal attack
was just that. But read the info sites and start seeing discrepancies. Books and web sites state
Gen. Kurt Student was wounded there and convalesced for 8 months. Another site says he was shot by friendly fire with no further explanation. Yet another has more detail of an s.s. trooper
shooting him mistakenly from a window.You would think that someone who shoots a GENERAL
by mistake would have some press interest or the fact that no news comes from it at all especially under Nazi censorship is being covered up. The following story comes from one of the
most decorated and recognized dutch underground leaders who i met in Mexico.
Bridges are crucial targets in war. A soldier there sadly watched German paratroopers take over the city network bridges. He was upset how easily they scattered the small defending bridge guards. He left the bridge ramparts to escape captivity and laid low in the adjoining tulip fields.
Under the hot sun in an army coat and unable to move at all , even to take his coat off as he would be spotted from the bridge. Pondering his dilemma, he watched a small group of officers set up a table next to the bridge under its shadow. Spreading maps on the table ,it was obvious
these were high ranking officers and taking his time to sight the distance--he took a shot--
the officer slumped over the map table as his companions leaned over wondering why.
Another shot and the second casualty went down. The bridge noise covered his shots and he managed to scurry away from the field and crawl in a ditch until he could run fleeing the
errant shots as the German troops finally sensed the danger.
His second target was the air force general of all German paratroopers.
Hitler rushed to his bedside in the hospital-and was outraged- the city was taken, how did a general get shot after the hostilities? Leaving the ward he had only one thing to say--bomb
Rotterdam into rubble. The part time sniper was interviewed in 1957, he owned a sandwich shop.
Better no one knows what i did and what it caused, many people, my own, died, had i known....
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