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

Product Information

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.

Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand

Charles W. Sydnor (1997). Soldiers of destruction: the SS Death's Head Division, 1933–1945. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00853-1, ISBN 978-0-691-00853-0.

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 German and Polish mounted troops fought one of the last significant cavalry vs cavalry clashes, during the Battle of Krasnobród in 1939. After the war, Kaspar received numerous state commissions, including the national coat of arms tapestry in the Senate Hall of the Bavarian state parliament. Most strikingly, though, Kaspar finished work he had started under the Third Reich. He began his monumental wall mosaic for the Congress Hall of Munich’s German Museum in 1935, finally completing it in 1955. Edwin Ernest Rich, Charles Wilson (1967). The Cambridge economic history of Europe, Volume 1. CUP Archive, 1967. 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.

Hitlers Horses from the New Reich Chancellery recovered by Hitlers Horses from the New Reich Chancellery recovered by

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 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.

Who was Josef Thorak?

R. L. DiNardo, Austin Bay (1988). Horse-Drawn Transport in the German Army. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 23, No. 1, 129–143 (1988). doi: 10.1177/002200948802300108.

Hitler’s Horses by Arthur Brand, review: a shadowy tale of

Allan R. Millett (1988). Military effectiveness, Volume 1. Routledge. ISBN 0-04-445054-0, ISBN 978-0-04-445054-2. With the help of middlemen, he acquired the sculptures from the Soviet military authorities, German media reported at the time of the seizure. They were smuggled out of East Germany in pieces, disguised as scrap metal, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The horse sculptures being removed from a storehouse in Bad Duerkheim, Germany, 21 May 2015. Fredrik von Erichsen/picture alliance via Getty Images Philip S. Jowett, illustrated by Stephen Andrew (2001). The Italian Army 1940–45: Africa 1940–43 Men At Arms 349. Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-865-8, ISBN 978-1-85532-865-5 Nigel Thomas, illustrated by Stephen Andrew (2000). The German Army 1939–45 (5): Western Front 1943–45. Men at Arms 336 Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-797-X, ISBN 978-1-85532-797-9

Nazi sculptures in German public spaces 

Nazi artist Josef Thorak created the two "Striding Horses" (known in German as "Schreitende Pferde")for Adolf Hitler's New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. By 1945 the only French mounted troops retaining an operational role were several squadrons of Moroccan and Algerian spahis serving in North Africa and in France itself. On the Day of the Open Monument on September 10, 2023, it will be permanently presented again for the first time, according to the museum, along with other problematic works of art. The Spandau Citadelin Berlin has added two Nazi-erasculptures to its permanent collection Image: Britta Pedersen/dpa/picture alliance Horses needed attendants: hitching a six-horse field artillery team, for example, required six men working for at least an hour. [1] Horse health deteriorated after only ten days of even moderate load, requiring frequent refits; recuperation took months and the replacement horses, in turn, needed time to get along with their teammates and handlers. [1] Good stables around the front line were scarce; makeshift lodgings caused premature wear and disease. [1] Refit of front-line horse units consumed eight to ten days, slowing down operations. [1] Colonel Philibert Collet's Free French Circassian Cavalry outside the railway station at Damascus, in the aftermath of the Syria-Lebanon campaign, 26 June 1941.