[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Hitler Youth

[Brad Haslett]

Andrew,

Grüß Gott

I haven't figured out that "omelet" thingy yet.

Brad

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Collins
<sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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