130 - The Texel Uprising: Night of Bayonets
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In previous episodes 77 and 55 we looked at foreign troops serving in the German army during WWII, in this episode we're going to be discussing the Georgians who came over from the Russian army to fight with the Wehrmacht. A large number of these men would eventually be posted to the Dutch island of Texel to man the Atlantic war. When the war in Europe ended on the 7th May 1945 the fighting on Texel would continue...
I'm joined by Eric Lee.
Eric is the author of Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace. |
| 0:06.7 | In previous episodes we've looked at foreign troops serving in the German army. |
| 0:11.6 | Well in this episode we're going to be discussing the Georgians |
| 0:14.7 | who came over from the Russian army to fight for the Germans. A large number of who would |
| 0:20.2 | eventually be posted to the Dutch island of Tessel to man the Atlantic Wall. |
| 0:26.0 | When the war in Europe ended on 7th of May 1945, |
| 0:30.0 | the fighting on Tessel will continue for another couple of weeks. The Night of the Baynets, the Tessel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April to May 1945. |
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| 1:35.5 | forward slash support. Eric, thanks for joining us. Let's start with the |
| 1:40.8 | Georgians. I was going to ask how did they end up fighting with the Germans during |
| 1:45.2 | World War II but it's it's sort of much more complicated than that the Georgians have a history with the Germans |
| 1:50.4 | don't they they cited with them during the First World War why? |
| 1:53.9 | Georgia at the time the First World War was part of Russia as part of the Russian |
| 1:58.3 | Empire. They were Georgian nationalists who would have liked to have left, but basically Georgia was a, you know, just a province in the Russian Empire. |
| 2:08.0 | But when the war ended for the Russians, basically with the Bolshevik seizure of power and Lenin's proclamation of peace, |
| 2:14.6 | everything began to fall apart on the margins. Ukraine fell into the hands of the |
| 2:20.0 | Germans very quickly. The Turks had a border with Russia, the border was in Georgia. |
| 2:25.2 | So the Turkish army was advancing very rapidly and so they were battling the Russians there. |
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