[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Hitler Youth

[Andrew Collins]

Brad

It is *Bad Tölz!*
Andrew
sv Carmen

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> You've heard the story here before.  The book "Last Days of Patton" by
> Ladislas Farago mentions a Hans Weindl in the acknowledgments and
> tells the story of Hans in the first chapter remembering Patton
> driving through Bad Tolz with the claxon horns blaring.  Bad Tolz was
> the site of the SS training camp and was headquarters for Patton after
> WW2 until his death.  Hans (now deceased) was the step-father of my
> ex-wife and we vacationed every year in Bad Tolz. Hans and I got into
> a lot of trouble together combining long nights, German beer, and war
> stories.  His father was Chief of Police of Bad Tolz and when Hans
> came home from a Hitler Youth meeting in the closing days of the war
> with an antiquated rifle, his father took away his gun and locked him
> in the attic until the American tanks rolled into town.  Where was I
> going with this?  Oh yeah, it is official now.  This thing has morphed
> into a freaking cult.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
>
> Brad
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