422nd and 423rd Inf Reg surrender during Battle of the Bulge Dec 1944
American prisoners of war are marched back into Germany after their capture during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944.
The initial surrender of the 422nd and 423rd infantry regiments was the largest mass U.S. surrender of World War II.
Source: U.S. Army photo
The initial surrender of the 422nd and 423rd infantry regiments was the largest mass U.S. surrender of World War II.
Source: U.S. Army photo
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on 2011-Feb-19 21:36:02 dumbledore said ...and somewhere in that line is Kurt Vonnegut. Question: wasn't the surrender of American troops in the Philippines the biggest mass surrender? -
on 2011-Mar-14 02:34:23 Jeff said 350 of these men who the German's suspected of being Jewish were sent to a satellite labor camp at Berga am elster. The surviors were ordered to tell no one of their ordeal because the US government did not want a backlash against the Germans because of the Cold War. The survivors had to set by and watch their tormentors get off with light sentences because the crimes the guards commited against them could not be brought into evidence. The story finally broke in the late 1990's. Documentary film maker Charles Guggenhiem was with this unit but transferred just before they were deployed and made a PBS film about these men. Recently there have been several books written on this mostly unknown event.