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Unread 05-09-2009, 04:37 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Ron Wood View Post

... I also suspect that Penem�¼nde was guarded by the regular army rather than the Gestapo. Guard duty is not glamorous and the rain, snow and mud would get their pretty uniforms messy.
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I doubt that these boys, with their top secret knowledge, were "protected" by the regular Army, particularly after the attempt on Hitler's life in July of 1944, by the Army. More likely than not, they were "friends of the management", perhaps Waffen SS or the SD itself.

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