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

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German and Polish mounted troops fought one of the last significant cavalry vs cavalry clashes, during the Battle of Krasnobród in 1939. 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. Nigel Thomas, illustrated by Stephen Andrew (1999). The German Army, 1939–45 (4): Eastern Front, 1943–45. Men At Arms 330 Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-796-1, ISBN 978-1-85532-796-2

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Josef Thorak was born in Vienna on February 7, 1889 and attended the Vienna Art Academy, eventuallymoving on to the Berlin Art Academy in 1915. After his studies he established himself as a sculptor of monumental works such as the 4-meter-high (13-foot)gable figure for the Reichsbank building in the western German city of Buer.Sutton, David (15 February 2022). Syria and Lebanon. Campaign of 1941. Bloomsbury USA. p.59. ISBN 9781472843845. 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.

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Main articles: Participants in World War II §Mongolia, Mongolian People's Army, and Mongolia in World War II Mongolian cavalry in the Khalkhin Gol, 1939 Janusz Piekalkiewicz (1979). The cavalry of World War II. Orbis Publishing. ISBN 0-85613-022-2, ISBN 978-0-85613-022-9. Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett (1998). Military innovation in the interwar period. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63760-0, ISBN 978-0-521-63760-2 Gross and Brauneis think the issue is less clear cut in the German case. “We must go case by case,” says Gross. “There can’t be a general rule.” Brauneis argues that in some cases explanatory notes are enough. “Sometimes rather than destroying the past we have to learn about it and then live with it even if that is uncomfortable.”a b Jowett, Philip (2002). The Japanese Army 1931–45 (1). Bloomsbury USA. p. 11. ISBN 1-84176-353-5. After the 1940 Louisiana Maneuvers cavalry units were gradually reformed into Armored Corps, starting with Adna R. Chaffee's 1st Armored Corps in July 1940. [112] Another novelty introduced after the maneuvers, the Bantam 4×4 car, soon became known as the jeep and replaced the horse itself. [33] Debates over the integration of armor and horse units continued through 1941 [113] but the failure of these attempts "to marry horse with armor" was evident even to casual civilian observers. [114] The office of Chief of Cavalry was eliminated in March 1942, and the newly formed ground forces began mechanization of the remaining horse units. [115] The 1st Cavalry Division was reorganized as an infantry unit but retained its designation. [116] J. Ingram Bryan (2006 reprint of 1928 edition). Japan from Within. Read Books. ISBN 1-4067-2732-6, ISBN 978-1-4067-2732-6. According to the German culture ministry, a pair of enormous bronze horses which were crafted specifically for Adolf Hitler and which were previously part of a private collection are going to become government property. The horses, which were made by the Austrian-German sculptor Josef Thorak, were intended to stand at the entrance to the New Reich Chancellery; the dictator commissioned the building to be a physical representation of Nazi totalitarian rule. According to The Art Newspaper, the horses were acquired by a private collector after being left behind at a Soviet military base. 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.

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Use of horses during World War II (1939–1945) German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941. In two months, December 1941 and January 1942, the German Army on the Eastern Front lost 179,000 horses. [1]It is as if the dismal dialectic set up by Goebbels in Munich in 1937 – on the one hand heroic, neoclassical German art sanctioned by the Nazis, and on the other modern art made by Jews and “degenerate” foreigners that often ended up being burned by Nazi functionaries – was still playing out in the first decades of West Germany’s existence.

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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. 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.

The official version, after all, is that West Germany was no haven for Nazis and that after 1945 a radical new aesthetic emerged. Indeed, a parallel exhibition at the museum tells the history of Documenta, the contemporary art show that takes place in Kassel every five years. When federal president Theodor Heuss opened the first Documenta in 1955, artists who had flourished in the Nazi era were not allowed to exhibit there since they were deemed unsuited to the modernist, anti-Nazi self-image of the young republic. Nazi artist Josef Thorak created the two "Striding Horses" (known in German as "Schreitende Pferde")for Adolf Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. The horse sculptures being removed from a storehouse in Bad Duerkheim, Germany, 21 May 2015. Fredrik von Erichsen/picture alliance via Getty Images The Reich Chancellery, built for Adolf Hitler by his chief architect Albert Speer, was largely destroyed in the Second World War. What remained was demolished by the Soviet occupiers. Thorak’s horses were discovered by a West German art historian on a sports field at the Soviet base at Eberswalde, near Berlin, in 1988. Wolf found out about them after the scholar wrote an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, according to German media reports dating from 2015. Bruce I. Gudmundsson (2004). On armor. The military profession. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-95019-0, ISBN 978-0-275-95019-4.