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

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Just as if nothing had happened … they are acting out a Ghost Sonata that leaves Strindberg standing.

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Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania followed the French mixed pattern; Austrian and Czechoslovak mobile divisions were similar but with a higher share of horses. He cheerfully quotes Dick Ellis, founder of New Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Squad: “Arthur is an idiot, but a clever one. 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.Neo-Nazis were so thrilled at the sudden reappear­ance of the führer’s favourite sculptures that they completely forgot to threaten me. Cavalry in the German Army and the Waffen-SS gradually increased in size, peaking at six cavalry divisions in February 1945. There is not much left of the Reich Chancellery, which featured very prominently in Nazi propaganda,” said Stephan Klingen, an art historian at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich.

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In 1941 the 1st Cavalry Brigade, part of the Mobile Corps, performed a 600-mile dash from Galicia to the Donetz Basin that ended in the loss of most of its motor vehicles. Among them is work by Hermann Kaspar whom Speer commissioned to design mosaics, frescoes, floors, friezes and wood inlays for the New Reich Chancellery.After World War I the Japanese Army blended the majority of its cavalry regiments into 32 existing infantry divisions to provide mounted reconnaissance battalions. On the contrary, he benefited from an old boys’ network of Nazis: his Pallas Athene in Wuppertal was made possible by the intercession of fellow “divinely gifted” architect Friedrich Hetzelt. The mechanization strategy was influenced by the state of economies, anticipated scenarios of war, politics and lobbying within civilian governments and the militaries. Most British regular cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1928 and the outbreak of World War II.

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d] Luftwaffe Field Divisions were designed to be lean and rely on trucks and halftracks but in real life these were substituted with horses and mules. The First Cavalry Army's experience and elevation of its commanders to the top of the military significantly influenced development of Soviet war doctrine in the interwar period. Four years later though, his posthumous reputation was boosted when the Schloss Nörvenich was given over to an Arno Breker Museum that can still be visited today.The collection features monuments created from1849 to 1986, covering the German Reich, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germanyand East Germany. Mechanization of the German Army substantially lagged behind the Red Army, [25] although the blitzkrieg of 1941 temporarily reversed the tables: the Germans captured tanks, trucks and tractors but were losing horses: 179,000 died in December 1941 and January 1942 alone. The Polish Army and its tactics were influenced by the mobile Polish-Soviet War where cavalry was the decisive force. Back in 2015, the horse statues initially turned up in the course of a German police investigation into an illegal art trafficking ring.

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The initial period of war on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941: proceedings of the Fourth Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, October 1987. Despite losses of horses to enemy action, exposure and disease, Germany maintained a steady supply of work and saddle horses until 1945. After all,” says a go-between in Arthur Brand’s Hitler’s Horses, “this isn’t a second-hand car deal.Since the fate of the horses is also already known, Brand sometimes works too hard to make an already compelling story more of a potboiler. Brand never did get to view the horses because the police, worried that word of their investigation was about to leak out, decided to raid the various locations suspected of housing them. Horses in World War II were used by the belligerent nations, for transportation of troops, artillery, materiel, messages, and, to a lesser extent, in mobile cavalry troops.