Goslar Library deaths

[merdock]

Hi,
Talk to a old guy today that Say's that there were a lot of injured soldiers killed by British troops in the library when there took the town ,is there any truth in this?.
Merdock

[Oliver Neubert]

Hi,
Talk to a old guy today that Say's that there were a lot of injured soldiers killed by British troops in the library when there took the town ,is there any truth in this?.
Merdock

Goslar (in the Harz Mountains) was taken by the 83rd US Infantry Division on 10 April 1945. The Brits took over command in July 1945, as far as I remember. Never heard about an allied war crime in Goslar/Harz, neither in April nor in July 1945.
O.N.

[Larry deZeng]

Allied War Crimes in Goslar -

Axis History Forum has a sub-forum entitled Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes. It currently contains 74,184 posts on 4,211 topics. Allied war crimes is one of their favorite subjects. I did a search for "Goslar" and there is no mention of any shootings or other war crimes taking place there.

--Larry

[merdock]

Hi,
Thanks for that,
Oliver you live in the right area ,the details of the story were that troops i assumed British from his story bayoneted sick troops in their beds in the library.
but I'm glad there's no basis to the tale .
Thanks Merdock

[Johnny R]

Hi,
Thanks for that,
Oliver you live in the right area ,the details of the story were that troops i assumed British from his story bayoneted sick troops in their beds in the library.
but I'm glad there's no basis to the tale .
Thanks Merdock

That sounds like a tall Pub tale to me. That late in the War not a lot of killing like that was going on west of the Elbe.

[John P. Moore]

There was definitely no atrocities committed against German wounded by Allied troops. I have a 4-page report from October 1974 written by SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Bäume, the former commander of the SS signal training and replacement battalion in Goslar from 1943 thru mid-April 1945. Bäume retired to Goslar after the war and wrote his report together with the former head of the Goslar Volksturm, Artur Schulz. In his report Bäume mentions that there were some 3,000 military wounded in Goslar in April 1945. A Fallschirmjäger battalion left Goslar on on 5.4.1945 and Bäume initiated measures to prevent defensive military action against the Allied forces. Bäume had civilian clothing issued to most of his troops and told them to go home. The remainder of his troops he took with him out of the city on April 10th towards Dresden with Goslar capitulating on the same date. Bäume's report appeared in the 10 April 1985 "Goslarer Zeitung" and was given to me in 1997 by another Waffen-SS signal veteran who served at Goslar and was a friend of Bäume's, who died in 1990 in Goslar. My copy of the report is on faded fax paper and will not scan well. Here is a scan of the first page.

John

[John P. Moore]

second page