Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld

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Philip S. Jowett, illustrated by Stephen Andrew (2001). The Italian Army 1940–45: Africa 1940–43 Men At Arms 349. Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-865-8, ISBN 978-1-85532-865-5 Without giving details, the government said in the statement that it plans to exhibit the monumental horses by Thorak. After all,” says a go-between in Arthur Brand’s Hitler’s Horses, “this isn’t a second-hand car deal. If we mess this up, we’ll either end up in jail or at the bottom of a lake.” Allan R. Millett (1988). Military effectiveness, Volume 1. Routledge. ISBN 0-04-445054-0, ISBN 978-0-04-445054-2.

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Janusz Piekalkiewicz (1979). The cavalry of World War II. Orbis Publishing. ISBN 0-85613-022-2, ISBN 978-0-85613-022-9. On the Day of the Open Monument on September 10, 2023, it will be permanently presented again for the first time, according to the museum, along with other problematic works of art. The Spandau Citadelin Berlin has added two Nazi-erasculptures to its permanent collection Image: Britta Pedersen/dpa/picture allianceI very seldom use a hidden camera,” writes Brand. “It went against my principles… But the case of Hitler’s art treasures was different. Whoever was harbouring these items had absolutely no intention of restoring them to their owner.” The camera ruse, whatever its justification, failed.

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German and Soviet armies relied heavily on work horses to pull artillery and supplies. [17] Horses seemed to be a cheap and reliable transport especially in the spring and fall mud of the Eastern Front [17] but the associated costs of daily feeding, grooming and handling horses were staggering. In theory horse units could feed off the country, but grazing on grass alone rendered horses unfit for work and the troops had no time to spend searching the villages for fodder. [18] Hard-working horses required up to twelve pounds of grain daily; [18] fodder carried by the troops made up a major portion of their supply trains. [18] From 1937 until 1944, Breker was among hundreds of German artists whose work was shown in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung in Munich, an exhibition designed to showcase what National Socialists thought of as the right kind of art. Much of it eulogised German sacrifice in the first world war or neo-classical heroic sculptures such as Breker’s Prometheus. a b Jowett, Philip (2002). The Japanese Army 1931–45 (1). Bloomsbury USA. p. 11. ISBN 1-84176-353-5. Motorization in the interwar period [ edit ] At the end of World War I the former belligerents retained masses of traditional cavalry (1923 French unit pictured) and were facing motorization to overcome the prospects of another strategic stalemate.In 1957, for instance, Breker was commissioned to make a sculpture installed outside the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium, a school in Wuppertal. The result was a larger than life bronze of Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of war and wisdom, helmeted and poised to throw a spear. “The iconography is just the same as that of the Nazi era,” says the exhibition’s curator, Wolfgang Brauneis. Charles W. Sydnor (1997). Soldiers of destruction: the SS Death's Head Division, 1933–1945. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00853-1, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0. Edwin Ernest Rich, Charles Wilson (1967). The Cambridge economic history of Europe, Volume 1. CUP Archive, 1967. Mark Axworthy, illustrated by Horia Şerbănescu (1991). The Romanian Army of World War 2. Men At Arms 246. Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-169-6, ISBN 978-1-85532-169-4. Breker had been lionised by the leaders of the Third Reich In 1944, he figured on a list of 378 “Gottbegnadeten” or “divinely gifted” artists whom Hitler and Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels exempted from military duty. In 1936, Hitler made Breker official state sculptor, giving him a large studio and 43 assistants. He was commissioned to make two athletic sculptures for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Three other sculptures – The Party, The Army and Striding Horses – were prominently displayed at the entrance to Speer’s New Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

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He says of a reporter working with him on the case, “As one of Germany’s top journalists, he excelled in ramping up the tension,” but at times his own attempts to follow suit are clumsy, and his end-of-chapter cliffhangers artificial. The story is good enough without this, and is not without its moments of comedy, too.

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Motorization of the 1930s raised a number of concerns, starting with the need to secure a continuous fuel supply. The new formations had a significantly larger footprint on the march: the 1932 French motorized division took up 52km (32mi) of road space compared to 11.5km (7.1mi) for a horse-mounted formation, raising concerns about control and vulnerability. [4] The Spanish Civil War and other conflicts of 1930s did not provide definite solutions and the issues remained unresolved until the onset of World War II. Only the German blitzkrieg achieved in the Battle of France finally persuaded the militaries of the world, including the United States, that the tank had replaced the horse on the battlefield. [16] Horse logistics [ edit ] German horse-drawn supply train with pneumatic tires in France, 1944 Paul Louis Johnson (2006). Horses of the German Army in World War II. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-2421-7, ISBN 978-0-7643-2421-5. From 1937 onward, Thorak became one of the preferred sculptors of the Nazis, commissioned to create countless propaganda sculptures emphasizing the supposed strength and glory of theregime. Horses in World War II were used by the belligerent nations, for transportation of troops, artillery, materiel, messages, and, to a lesser extent, in mobile cavalry troops. The role of horses for each nation depended on its military doctrines, strategy, and state of economy. It was most pronounced in the German and Soviet Armies. Over the course of the war, Germany (2.75 million) and the Soviet Union (3.5 million) together employed more than six million horses.

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a b c d e All numbers are nominal headcount, rarely reached even during formation in deep rear areas. After the war, Breker’s status as image maker for the Nazis, one might have thought, would have made him persona non grata in the new German republic. On the contrary, he benefited from an old boys’ network of Nazis: his Pallas Athene in Wuppertal was made possible by the intercession of fellow “divinely gifted” architect Friedrich Hetzelt.

Yet for some reason Brand – or possibly his editor – felt the need to ramp up the tension by constantly emphasising the danger he was in, and the ruthlessness of the people he was dealing with. Neither claims are particularly convincing. Chapters end on cliffhangers more typical of pulp fiction. Brand is described as the art world’s answer to Indiana Jones. Yet his naive and, at times, blundering attempts to navigate the dark world of German neo-Nazis are more reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau. Like the occasion when, having climbed a tree to try to spot the horses in the garden of a wealthy German industrialist, he lost his grip and tumbled to the ground. The horse sculptures being removed from a storehouse in Bad Duerkheim, Germany, 21 May 2015. Fredrik von Erichsen/picture alliance via Getty Images