Name: The German Infantrymen who Faked being a Captain to Commit WAR CRIMES - How Did he Get Away With it?
Uploaded: 2022-02-20T16:00:03+00:00
Duration: 11 min 40 s
Description: Does the man make the uniform, or the uniform make the man? In this video, we tell the story of Willi Herold—the deserter who found a captain’s uniform and took charge of over a hundred German soldier

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Does the man make the uniform, or the uniform make the man? In this video, we tell the story of Willi Herold—the deserter who found a captain’s uniform and took charge of over a hundred German soldiers in the last weeks of WWII.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:46 Young Willi Herold
3:05 The Collapsing Reich
4:11 “Detachment Herold”
7:36 The Executioner of Elmsland
9:30 Wanted War Criminal
10:55 Conclusion