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Malmédy massacreOperation GreifEric Wood (106th Infantry Division)Berga: Soldiers of Another WarOperation Northwind

Malmédy massacre, Jewish Virtual Library

Denying the Malmédy massacre is a side interest of Holocaust deniers, and a good portion of the Google entires for the massacre come from these source. Disgusted, I have omitted these pages.

See also Personal Accounts: 3rd Armored Division.

Massacre at Malmédy by Michael Reynolds, for World War II magazine (date unstated). Excellent long article reviews the evidence:

"Sadly, incomplete and rushed investigations, suspicions about the methods used to obtain confessions, and inadequate or flawed evidence ensured that guilty men escaped proper punishment, and there can be little doubt that some innocent men were punished during the trial. In the final analysis, justice itself became another casualty of the incident."

Wikipedia: Malmédy massacre . This page is also available on the German Wikipedia (Google translation).

U.S. Army Personnel Killed in the Malmédy Massacre from the Surgeon General, Office of Medical History.

The Malmedy Massacre Revisited by Henri Rogister, with account by Emile Jamar.

"Mortuary Affairs Operations At Malmedy – Lessons Learned From A Historic Tragedy" by Scott T. Glass. Detailed narrative, with "lessons learned." From the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia.

Wikipedia: Joachim Peiper.

Operation Greif

"The Most Dangerous Man in Europe" by Don Hollway, World War II (January 1995). Detailed article on Skorzeny, mostly on Operation Greif.

"Revealed: Farce of plot to kidnap Eisenhower" by Tony Paterson for the London Telegraph (Feb. 5, 2004). One of the veterans speaks out.

Captains Quarters blog discusses the article and adds historical context.

Wikipedia: Operation Greif. Good entry, shoots down the attempt on Eisenhower. Also see the article on Skorzeny.

Amazon. Skorzeny: 'The Most Dangerous Man in Europe' by Charles Whiting, also available in hardcover.

"Otto Skorzeny: The Scar-Faced Commando" by Rob Vest, a college paper. Details Skorzeny's life, with much on his exploits after Greif.

Jewish Virtual Library: Otto Skorzeny. Short biography, including the Greif operation.

Amazon. My Commando Operations: The Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando by Otto Skorzeny. Amazon reviewers all enthusiastic, and take him at his word. One recommends the book to "young people to get an idea of being real professional."

Apparently there was a 1970 Wargame called "Operation Greif" from Guidon Games.

Eric Wood (106th Infantry Division)

The Incredible Valor of Eric Wood by R. Ernest Dupuy, Col. USA, ret. on Eric Wood (106th Infantry Division), who led a few US soldiers stranded behind German lines in the Bullingen Forest, and died a hero. He was posthumously awarded the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross and the Belgian Cross of Chevalier of the Order of Leopold I with Gold Palm, the only American in WWII to receive this honor. This is a gripping, inspiring story. From Hans Wijers's Battle of the Bulge site.

More detail from the "Notable Alumni" section of the Valley Forge Military Academy.

"A Soldier's, Soldier, The Hero From Bedford County" by Corporal John Gatens. Less detail, but information on his descendants, from St. James Episcopal Church, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Berga: Soldiers of Another War

Berga: Soldiers of Another War. Documentary about 350 American soldiers captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Classified as Jewish (two-thirds were not), they were shipped off as slave laborers to a satelite of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

NPR Audio: 'Berga' Tells of Nazi Slave Camp, U.S. Captives from All Things Considered (Tuesday , May 27, 2003). Description and interview with Guggenheim's daugher (Guggenheim died shortly after completing the film.)

"Prisoners of Another War: A look inside a German camp." Dorothy Rabinowitz's "Media Log" Wall Street Journal (September 10, 2004)

"Even in this tale told so somberly it is impossible to miss the quintessentially American stubbornness and idealism it reflects in its down-to-earth way: as though there were nothing out of the ordinary about men who, for the sake of a principle, would defy captors holding the power of life or death."

Boston Phoenix interview with Grace Guggenheim.

"Holocaust soldiers recall capture, liberation" by Anita Wadhwani, The Tennessean.

Val e-diction Blog: "Prisoners of Another War" (May 29, 2003). Rreflects on Berga today.

Producer's blurg (Guggenheim Productions)

Amazon. DVD.

Joint review (with two other PBS documentaries) by Joanne Weintraub, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Operation Northwind

Amazon. The Other Battle of the Bulge: Operation Northwind by Charles Whiting.

"Nordwind" chapter from Riviera to the Rhine by Jeffery J Clarke and Robert Ross Smith (1993), an official account from the Center for Military History.

"7th Army's Operations During Nordwind: Hitler's Last Offensive" by Ted Mataxis. Detailed, scholarly paper.