01-26-2009, 06:15 PM
I do not have many books on the subject but one I do have say's this was indeed the case. Perhaps then the camo cover I spotted was in fact another mosquito net!
No you were correct Graham, those were helmet covers and camo smocks on some troops and nets on others, but they were not Waffen-SS but rather Army troops in the trenches.
This question of who handled security drove me to do some more research.
Indeed the Army did provide the main security at the Wolf's Lair in the form of the Fuhrerhauptquartier (of which Rommel was the commander in 1939 IIRC) and the Fuhrer Begleit Brigade. In addition the Waffen -SS provided direct personal security.
So, the film is quite correct in depicting members of the Army as providing the outer rings of security, but it perhaps should have shown more Waffen-SS soldiers manning the inner rings of security. It is a minor point and does not detract from the overall quality of the film or the story line.
As for Rommel... I'm not certain who the general is in the opening scenes of the film though it was perhaps an allegorical reference to Rommel who was badly wounded in an air attack in France during the Normandy battles of 1944.
:wink:
Narukami
No you were correct Graham, those were helmet covers and camo smocks on some troops and nets on others, but they were not Waffen-SS but rather Army troops in the trenches.
This question of who handled security drove me to do some more research.
Indeed the Army did provide the main security at the Wolf's Lair in the form of the Fuhrerhauptquartier (of which Rommel was the commander in 1939 IIRC) and the Fuhrer Begleit Brigade. In addition the Waffen -SS provided direct personal security.
So, the film is quite correct in depicting members of the Army as providing the outer rings of security, but it perhaps should have shown more Waffen-SS soldiers manning the inner rings of security. It is a minor point and does not detract from the overall quality of the film or the story line.
As for Rommel... I'm not certain who the general is in the opening scenes of the film though it was perhaps an allegorical reference to Rommel who was badly wounded in an air attack in France during the Normandy battles of 1944.
:wink:
Narukami
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