He Laughed When Patton Entered the Room — He Stopped Laughing 30 Seconds Later
In April 1945, in Bavaria, Germany, General George S. Patton walked into an interrogation room. He had been briefed on the prisoner waiting inside: Major General Heinrich Kessler, commander of the 19th Panzer Division, captured three days earlier outside Nuremberg. What the briefing had not mentioned was what Kessler was doing at the moment Patton … Read more