Source:laststandonzombieisland.com/
– Der Spiegel just ran a story on the little-known “Schnez troupe.” You see in Allied-occupied Western Germany, there was no German Army from 1945-1955. However, there was some 2000 former Waffen SS and Wehrmacht officers who were still raring to fight and didn’t feel the allure of working for the Egyptians or signing on for the French Foreign Legion to die in some jungle in Indochine.
two german soldiers surrender to a USGI armed with his own recently aquired Luger in WWII Europe
Led by Colonel General Albert Schnez with former General Adolf Heusinger (late of the Wermacht’s) Operations Department of the General Staff Command of the Army and General Hans Speidel, who in WWII was chief of staff of Army Group B under Rommel, the group put together a shadow army that would have numbered some 40,000 former German soldiers and obtained weapons through the German police.
In 1951 West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer learned of this and the CIA-backed and funded Gehlen Spy Organization, itself filled with former Nazi types, but officially did nothing. However in 1955 when the West German Army (Bundeswehr) was formed officially, Schnez troupe melted away although Schnez, Speidel, and Heusinger all went on to serve in high-ranking positions in the new force. From 1957 to 1963 Speidel was even supreme commander of the Allied land forces in Central Europe to NATO. The Gehlen group also morphed into the Bundesnachrichtendienst (or Federal Intelligence Agency) of the Federal Republic of Germany, which still exists.
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Schnez, as Inspector with the rank of Lt-Gen in der Bundeswehr, from which he retired from on September 30, 1971.
And according to Spiegel, they were able to keep it all under wraps until this month. (In German)
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