Are there any nazi generals from world war 2 that never got caught? So are considered still on the run?
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Any Nazi generals that have never got caught are protected by ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, "Organization of Former SS-Members") was/is an international Nazi network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers, among whom were Martin Bormann and Heinrich Himmler. This group's purpose was to establish and facilitate secret escape routes, called ratlines, out of Germany to South America and the Middle East for hunted members. With alleged ties to Argentina, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Vatican, ODESSA ostensibly operated out of Buenos Aires and helped Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke, Aribert Heim and many other war criminals find refuge in Latin America and the Middle East.\n\nSS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks were both believed to have been active in this organization, but these suppositions have never been proven. Similarly, General Reinhard Gehlen's entire intelligence organisation that was employed and protected by US intelligence within a few months of the end of the war (and which subsequently became an important part of NATO intelligence in eastern Europe as well as of Gladio, NATO's secret "stay-behind" paramilitary organizations), came under suspicion. In Argentina, Rodolfo Freude was allegedly a member of the network.\n\nOtto Skorzeny Still held in prison until he escaped from a prison camp on July 27, 1948.
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No, but his nephew William Patrick Hitler did. He moved here to escape his uncle and joined the US Navy in WW2.
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Everyone in Germany and other countries saw it, but were afraid to question the officers of the German Army.  SS officers were usually at the transportation point, so most people were afraid.  If you asked where the people were going, they could just as easily throw you in the train.  So the average Germans thought the Jews were being transported to detention camps and not death camps.  The SS or German secret service were very intrusive and violent, so the general public left them along.
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Probably alot, but neither side used them in World War 2.  Germans used most of their gas on the Jews.  Needless to say, the Nazis got creative.
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Some people still like hitler but that does not make him a hero.\nMilosevith case is same.
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Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children!\nIn these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews and Muslims) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 100,000 and 150,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did nothing to prevent them. [MV]
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Launching operation barbarosa.... big oops.\n\nD-day... signaled the beginning of the end.\n\nThe failed attemp on Hitler's life... it made him even MORE paranoid and distrustful of his generals.
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I worked for Germans ..its in their blood. When people think of "the GESTAPO" they think of b movie SS guys following you around. That was not true. The GESTAPO for the most part were just beurocrats, clerks for the most part who shifted through info that people were giving them. The neighbors WOULD SPY ON EACH OTHER, and they would turn each other in. In East Germany they kept the same system, but it was the STASI. I have some eurotrash german neighbors, and the grandma said knew by boss and would report me cause I told her to shut the he11 up!My old job I was told on all the time, either to the boss, or to the friggin union, because I wouldnt put up with their crap.The left wing guys over here are really funny...they will spend all day talking about how they hate the cops and how they are big anarcists and the law is all scum, but again when I told a guy he was full of it the first thing he screamed was "Im gonna call the police"  I really wish we gave them the Morgantau Plan instead of the Marshall Plan
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While he was an outstanding general and military leader, he wrote down his tactics in "Infantry Attacks" and never deviated much from them.  Patton read this book, and others Rommel wrote, and used that knowledge to defeat him.\n\nRommel also tried to get Hitler to see reason and support the North African Campaign.  Luckily for the free world, Hitler ignored him.\n\nHmmm...interesting view on my answer below.  And your sources are?  Yes, Rommel was overrated and Guderian (The "Difficult Subordinate") was probably the better general, as was von Manstein.  Rommels "currying favor" did little for him in the end though.  And all officers on the General Staff had to be party members.  \n\nAnd Patton never used combined arms?  Odd, no tactical studies I did of him showed that and I've been an Army Armor officer for years.  He did have a love for the saber and horse CAV, but was able to give that up.  Knowing how your enemy fought was the source of Patton's quote, not fighting as Rommel did.  It took a while for the US to catch up to the Germans, but, unlike other nations fighting Germany, we actually tried to mimic combined arms warfare.  Today we have prety much mastered it and are expending ever more on those concepts.\n\nLuckily for the world, Hitler was a terrible general and Germany always seemed to lose when Hitler got involved in Operational levels of war.  Unfortunatly for the Germans, but fortunatly for us, the German army, at all levels, really screwed up their LOG tail and issued so many varients of tanks that mechanics couldn't keep up. \n\nI can list book after book supporting views what I wrote.  You can still have your opinions, just please stop coughing at me, it's rude.
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There were two main places communists got involved in World War II.  The first, obviously, was Russia.  They were, ironically enough, our allies in the fight against the Nazis.  The second was the underground movements in occupied countries.  Since communists were banned by the Nazis, they already had a network of secret cells and communication systems.  They were the ones, after all, who invented the Molotov Cocktail and other guerrilla fighting techniques.  And there is no denying that some of them were very brave and took terrible risks in the underground fighting.  This also clearly gave them some key positions when the war was over, and they took maximum advantage of the fact.
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Germans were for ages very pedantic. They kept their records meticulously for generations. To be determined a Jew, it was enough for you to have one Jewish grandparent.\nSometimes there were exceptions to the rule, but mostly there weren't. It wasn't a problem at all, to look three generations back at the archives and find out what happens to you. \nIn very special cases, Hitler himself has overridden the case, but it happened only very few times. Generally the Nazi machine never deviated from the standard in that respect.
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This was a question much pursued by the Allies during the little publicized Japanese War Crimes Trials immediately following the end of  hostilities.\n\nIt has been said that gold and other valuables that the Japanese stole during their occupation of the Philippine Islands is still there, perhaps buried, or maybe hidden in a cave.\n\nAdventurers and historians, to this very day, are still searching for Yamashita's Stash.\n\nDo I believe it still exists, remaining uncongenial to discovery?\n\nI like to think so..
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1. Shrapnel does not ping off trees it embeds itself, just as he was alledgedly doing. I have heard and read about many exploits during the war,some true some blatantly untrue, it helps to pass the time and i love hearing them and never discourage or disrespect anyone who has lived through the war,my father was one such storyteller from his exploits he battled hitler single handedly, he once told me he was in Andy Clydes Commados it was years later when i learned that it was the army catering corps, what he didnt tell me that he was also in a highland regiment, that fought many battles and was a seargeant major and had been awarded twenty two medals several for courage displayed in battle, so i never thought about that because those memories he held in ,preffering to lighten his stories of daring rather than relive them, LF
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yea there are def. some stupid people out there,like the other day i read this question about nazi's and if people wanted to join this guy so they can come back ...ong ppl make me po'd
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i havent heard of any german soldiers doing this.  but i have heard of japanese doing up to 30 years after the war ended
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In no particular order (and these were Generals who were good at being Generals on the Battlefield, not battalion commanders who excelled and later become Generals, like Hal Moore)\n\nAlexander the Great - conquered the known world by the time he was 26\n\nErwin Rommel - the Desert Fox. Would have won in WW2 North African if he's been given the supplies\n\nArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - victor in India, Portugal, Spain, and at Waterloo. \nBernard Law Montgomery - inpsired his troops, designed and delivered victory in the Battle of Normandy\n\nG.B.P 'Pip' Roberts (The Black Bull, WW2) - youngest Major General in the British Army, led 11th Armoured from Normandy into Germany. Best tank leader and often overlooked. \n\nGeorge S. Patton - made Stormin Norman look like he was playing with toys. Put fear into the Nazis\n\nRobert E. Lee - led Johnny Reb, inspired his troops, nearly beat the Feds\n\nHanibal Barca - amazing adventures\nVo Nguyen Giap- took on the French and won, then the US, and Won\nGeory Zhukov - Red Army leader that did more than anyone to defeat the Wehmacht
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I haven't heard of them but I wouldn't be surprised.  I am just learning that there were a number of German POW camps located in the South.  Why was that fact omitted from my high school U.S. history course?