DingoSaar
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Joined: 11/30/2005 From: Saarbrücken, FRGermany Status: offline
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Don't know if this would be a Mega-Campaign; if it was a Campaign, so much the better. I would like the Ruhr Kettle? Cauldron?, German Ruhrkessel, where the USA did close in the Germans in the Ruhrgebiet. The Ruhrkessel was closed and held until the front was far more to the East. In the Ruhrkessel, area leaders (Gauleiter) still proclaimed final victory, the GeStaPo murdered many a dissident (also executed were people knowing too much), and some pretty high-up Nazi leaders got the chance after spending many a young German's life to see recognition and attain high positions in the Federal Republic under Adenauer, being cleaned by the Allied Control Council. I would like to play the Ruhrkessel; my grandfather was evacuated, along with his family (including my mother), from Dortmund to Störmede village 1945. On Good Friday of 1945, many people were executed in the Rombergpark in Dortmund (there's a memorial today); my grandfather was on the list, and Combat Group Kane (I hope somewhere, there's also a memorial for them) reached Störmede some days later - nevertheless, the "Herrenmenschen" of the GeStaPo seemed to have been to frightened to take him from Störmede in time (which I rejoice). If somebody knows the battle, and can put it into a (Mega-)Campaign, I think it would be an interesting one. Yours Ralf Hagen
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