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🗓️ 26 December 2024
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0:36.1 | Achung, Merry Christmas, everyone. |
0:47.6 | We're back with our Christmas specials. In the last episode, I shared the brutal story of Finnish fighting in Christmas 1939. John, I hope your 1944 story is any better. I mean, where does it take place? |
0:55.6 | Probably in the Hurtkand forest or at the edges of it, maybe somewhere near the Belgian-German border. And we tend to forget that fighting was still going on there periodically, even though the Battle of the Bulge was happening. And this |
1:00.0 | incident is often described as happening in the context of the Battle of Bulge, which may be |
1:04.7 | technically incorrect because it could have happened a little farther north of there. It involves |
1:08.4 | soldiers in the 8th Infantry Division, which is a unit that often described itself as participating in the bulge, |
1:14.6 | but doesn't actually get official credit. Okay, so we get that part of that out of the way. |
1:18.7 | I don't think that's what's most important. What's most important is this, |
1:21.9 | this very humid incident that happens here. So there was a small German family, |
1:26.9 | a mother and her son, the |
1:29.8 | Vincans, Elizabeth Vinkin and her son, Carl. Elizabeth's husband was a baker who helped feed |
1:36.1 | the German army. And he was gone, you know, from the family doing that as the winter was |
1:41.1 | unfolding. So she and Carl took to a family cabin, or it was least maybe |
1:46.5 | owned by a friend of there, something like that. And they go to this cabin that's right there on |
1:51.5 | the Belgian-German border, and they're hoping to hunker down for the winter. And they've got |
1:56.1 | some food, and, you know, they've got, obviously, their shelter, and they have wood for the fire |
2:00.4 | and all that stuff. So they're hoping to just be anonymous, they've got, obviously, their shelter, and they have wood for the fire and all that stuff. |
2:01.3 | So they're hoping to just be anonymous, but on Christmas Eve, as they told it, there was a knock at the door. |
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