General Patton’s Shocking Response to Wehrmacht Officers’ Nazi Salute: A Moment of Reckoning in the Wake of Germany’s Surrender that Changed the Course of Military Honor and Morality Forever
MUNICH — In a requisitioned German military barracks outside Munich on May 9, 1945, the day after Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender, a formal ceremony meant to symbolize the transfer of power to Allied forces erupted into one of the most explosive confrontations of the entire occupation when 41 of 53 high-ranking Wehrmacht officers rendered the … Read more