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

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In addition, some mounted units of the Mongolian People's Army supported a Soviet Army on the western flank of the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945. He began his monumental wall mosaic for the Congress Hall of Munich’s German Museum in 1935, finally completing it in 1955. All regular cavalry troops served on the Eastern Front [48] and the Balkans [27] and a few Cossack battalions served on the Western Front. The role of horses for each nation depended on its military doctrines, strategy, and state of economy.

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They became the main strike weapon and cavalry was relegated to auxiliary offensive tasks requiring all-terrain mobility – usually involving encirclement and mopping up of an enemy already shattered and split by tank forces.Edwin Ramsey, successfully charged their mounts at a far superior Japanese force of armor-supported infantry, surprising and scattering them. Cavalry in the German Army and the Waffen-SS gradually increased in size, peaking at six cavalry divisions in February 1945. The horses, which were made by the Austrian-German sculptor Josef Thorak, were intended to stand at the entrance to the New Reich Chancellery; the dictator commissioned the building to be a physical representation of Nazi totalitarian rule. Thorak worked on statues intended to represent the folk-life of Germany under Nazi coordination; these works tended to be heroic in scale, up to 65 feet,” according to Holland’s German Art Gallery. While Hitler and his regime persecuted Jewish and modern artists who they claimed produced "degenerate art"and looted the collections of Jewish art collectors,Thorak flourished.

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Note that decline in horse population due to motorization and the Great Depression continued through the 1930s. Despite losses of horses to enemy action, exposure and disease, Germany maintained a steady supply of work and saddle horses until 1945. As tank production and Allied supplies made up for the losses of 1941, the cavalry was merged with tank units, forming more effective strike groups.The 6th Army, engaged in urban warfare in Stalingrad, was unable to feed or graze their horses and sent them to the rear. Over the following eleven years all regular mounted regiments stationed in the United Kingdom, other than the Household Cavalry, were motorized, [4] and their horses sold or allocated to other units. He is a Dutch art detective who recovers treasures stolen from his mostly Jewish clients in the 1930s and 40s, and he also checks the authenticity of other high-value art for prospective purchasers.

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After the war, Meller thrived professionally, making sculptures for the German postal service, a federal eagle for the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn, then the official residence of the Federal Chancellor. Model of the Reich Chancellery building, designed by Albert Speer: The bronze statue of “Trabenes Pferd,” or “Trotting Horse,” is by sculptor Josef Thorak. The United States Army, having ample reserves of fuel and trucks, opted for all-truck logistics from the onset of their military reform of 1940. Rainer Wolf of Bad Dürkheim near Mannheim, the collector who had the horse statues in his possession, has relinquished them to the German government; the government has plans to display the statues in an exhibition at some point.Use of horses during World War II (1939–1945) German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941. An elaborated investigation into the workings of a number of illegal art dealers, which spanned over an area of five states, was concluded with a number of raids on several properties up and down the country, ultimately recovering the artefacts. By the 1941 standard, each division counted 9,240 [d] men – four cavalry regiments, one mechanized regiment of BT tanks and two artillery battalions; [84] a 1941 cavalry corps had two divisions reinforced with more armor and artillery.

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Just as if nothing had happened … they are acting out a Ghost Sonata that leaves Strindberg standing. By the end of 1941 organizational problems were solved by further reducing units into "light cavalry" divisions with a strength of roughly half of a "normal" cavalry division [88] (3,447 [d] men in three regiments).Three other sculptures – The Party, The Army and Striding Horses – were prominently displayed at the entrance to Speer’s New Reich Chancellery in Berlin.