Hi everyone,

have to tell You an incredible story I read on a german webpage. It is related bey eye-wittnesses of 2nd SS-PzRegiment. As it could be a great diorama-topic, here comes the story:

It´s the 8th of may 1945, day of german surrender. In Austria resting parts of 2nd SS Pz-Regiment are prepared to surrender to the allied troops. Among small groups, waiting in the hills around Linz (Austria), there is a group of 20 Grenadiers, a Tiger I Ausf. E.(early) and a PzIV (late).
On 9th of may, there came a US-Jeep with two soldiers and a white flag in order to arrange german surrender. The highest range of the german troups was a Hauptscharführer, who at the same time was comander of the Tiger-crew. One of the US-Officers was a jew, born in Nürnberg, same as the Tiger-Comander, who was born in that town too. So they got talking for hours about war, holocaust and nonsense of fighting against each other. Suddenly the US-Officer asked, if the Tiger-Comander would drive into a last battle. There were wounded US-troups, surrounded in a near village by russian tank troups, who were going to destroy a small number of german troups, also wounded in that village. Without a counter attack by heavy arms the german grenadiers would end badly, same as the american troups who were trapped in the same village. The Tiger-Crew agreed, and so did the grenadiers and the PzIV-crew. (The counter attack to rescue US and german troups was voluntary). The american officer promised, that after the rescue-operation all soldiers who participated in it, could go home as free men.
In the morning of 10th of may, the US-Officers returned with two trucks, containing food, cigarettes, fuel and most important: amunition of another captured Tiger.
"So many food we did´nt see since the Normandy-battle", the Tiger-Officer should remember later.
So in the evening of 10th of may the german battle-group made it´s way towards the russian line. On 11th of may (!!) the battle began. On a distance of 1300 m. the Tiger became aware of 2 JS and 3 T34 tanks, which were firing from the top of a hill into the village. The first shot of the Tiger´s 88mm-gun destroyed a JS2, the second hit a T34, same time as a PZ IV shell. Inmediately the resting russian troups retreated from the hill - so the wounded americans and germans (appearently from Regiment "Der Führer") could escape from the village. The US-Officer later kept his word and the germans could go home (though the Tiger-Comander one Year after that battle was arrested, because of a Traitor).

So this is the story, as it is related by eye-witnesses. I first didn´t believe it. But when I investigated about that I got to know that indeed, there were dicussions between US and russian troups about the borderline, ending with the division of the austrian town of Linz.

Does anybody know which US-troops were fighting on 8th of may near Linz (Austria)?
Was there any problem between US-troups an Russians in that region?
And most of all: How would You put into scene a story like that?

Good story! Do you have a link to it?

Desafortunately, this page is all in german. But here is the link:

http://www.panzerlehr.de

Thanks, I'll translate it.

I'm always willing to soak up hisory, and thats a nice piece of history right there, thanks