The German Officer Begged Patton to Let His Wounded Men Surrender Before They Froze—Patton Said Yes
In January 1945, in the Ardennes, the temperature had dropped below freezing four days earlier and had not risen since. Captain Friedrich Weil of the Wehrmacht had been cut off from his unit during fighting east of Bastogne, and he remained responsible for 38 men, 11 of them wounded badly enough that they could not … Read more