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From: pspod@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SS SB500
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Date: 5 Jul 90 02:06:56 GMT
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From: pspod@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Stefan)
In article <1990Jun18.010128.29354@cbnews.att.com>, mm49@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Michael Mayer) writes...
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> 
>From: Michael Mayer <mm49@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
>	A couple years ago I came across an incredible book.  It was in
>german and was the story of the SS Sturmbatallion 500.  This was a
>"Bewaehrungsbattalion"  (prove yourself battalion)   It was compromised
>mostly of german SS officers, that were courtmarshalled for things such as
>retreating to a strategically better location (Hitler had ordered no
>retreats.)
> text deleted

Do you have any evidence that this is fact and not fiction as is typical of
many books of this nature describing the actions of renegade (but valorous)
Nazi units on the Russian front (another variation of the ride of the Valkyries)