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One of my favorite, end-of-WWII stories is that of Operation Zitronella [1]. Several German troops stationed at a weather station on Spitsbergen weren't able t
by xefer 12y ago
One of my favorite, end-of-WWII stories is that of Operation Zitronella [1].
Several German troops stationed at a weather station on Spitsbergen weren't able to formally surrender until they were picked up by Norwegians in September 1945, four months after the end of hostilities.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zitronella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Zitronella
- a_bonobo 12y agoHave you heard of Hiroo Onoda? He was stationed (or "hidden") as a guerrilla fighter on a small Philippine island, and his superiors told him to keep fighting until he received further orders. These orders never came so he kept fighting until 1974! He dismissed all leaflets, newspapers etc. that were dropped for him as propaganda, since they showed Americans living with Japanese side by side, and if Japan had lost, all Japanese would have obviously died fighting. He published interesting, but not that truthfully ghost-written memoirs (he does not mention that he killed several islanders). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
- cornewut 12y agohttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2
- Someone 12y agoThere's also "nazi Kurt", who hid above the arctic circle until 1981: http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/06/27/nazi-kurt-captured-in-arctic-circle-in-1981/ http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/06/27/nazi-kurt-captured-.... (Mentioning this for the similarity to operation Zitronella and because StrangeHistory.net is an interesting site)
- xefer 12y agoYes. This was the only German land operation on the North American continent during WWII