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

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Contemporary reports of the discovery mention the part played by a 76-year-old Berlin art dealer, Traude Sauer, who was the first to be told they were up for sale. Though Thorak had experimented with modernism and was a former left-winger who married and had a child with a Jew, it seemed he wanted to fit in with the boys in brown. Army Cossacks of 1942 formed four regiments [54] and in August 1943 were merged into the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division (six regiments, [35] up to 13,000 men) trained in Poland [54] and deployed in Yugoslavia. According to The Art Newspaper, the horses were acquired by a private collector after being left behind at a Soviet military base. The last action by Polish cavalry occurred on March 1, 1945 near Schoenfeld, when the Independent Warsaw Brigade overran German anti-tank positions.

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General Issa Pliyev's CMG, marching to Peking across the Gobi Desert, was actually manned by Mongolian cavalrymen – four Mongolian cavalry divisions in addition to one Soviet cavalry division, plus five mechanized brigades with heavy tanks. The sculptures showed signs of the battle they had been through, painted gold to mask their bullet holes.They repelled a unit of tanks in Binalonan and successfully held ground for the Allied armies' retreat to Bataan. Two Greek horse mounted regiments, plus one that had been partially motorized, saw service during the Italian invasion of Greece of October 1940. It was that industrialist – with links to far-Right political groups – who was trying sell the horses when Brand first got involved. Two bronze horses sculpted by Josef Thorak for Adolf Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery that were abandoned on a Soviet military base in East Germany will become government property after a legal settlement with the collector who acquired them, according to the German culture ministry. The supply train of a lean 1943 Soviet infantry division, in comparison, had only 91 trucks and 556 horses attended by 879 men.

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Use of trucks was constrained by the lack of fuel and high costs of synthetic gasoline on the German side, and the losses of equipment in 1941–1942 on the Soviet side. The 6th Army, engaged in urban warfare in Stalingrad, was unable to feed or graze their horses and sent them to the rear. The Reich Chancellery, built for Adolf Hitler by his chief architect Albert Speer, was largely destroyed in the Second World War. 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. For all departments of art Hitler regarded the late nineteenth century as one of the greatest cultural epochs in human history,” Speer wrote in a memoir, “ Inside the Third Reich.All regular cavalry troops served on the Eastern Front [48] and the Balkans [27] and a few Cossack battalions served on the Western Front. 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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We’re obviously deep in Dan Brown territory, or perhaps that of Frederick Forsyth, Len Deighton or John le Carré, although the story is told with little of the flair of these authors, and certainly with none of le Carré’s literary style. Indeed, Brauneis points out that when there were objections in the press or among art critics to publicly commissioned art in West Germany, their complaints rarely had anything to do with the artists’ Nazi credentials. The Soviets managed their losses with the formation of 76 horse transport battalions of 500 horses each, and employed reindeer in the Arctic and camels in the South.They became the main strike weapon and cavalry was relegated to auxiliary offensive tasks requiring all-terrain mobility – usually involving encirclement and mopping up of an enemy already shattered and split by tank forces. The Italian Colonial Empire inherited by the fascist regime maintained diverse colonial troops, including regular and irregular cavalry. The German Army entered World War II with 514,000 horses, [14] and over the course of the war employed, in total, 2. But with the fall of Berlin, a large part of chancellery was completely destroyed by the Red Army, along with scores of other historic buildings in the City.