Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld

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After the collapse of Poland the remains of its cavalry reemerged in France as the 10th Armoured Brigade [73] and in the United Kingdom as the 1st Armoured Division.

Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand Hitler’s favourite artists: why do Nazi statues still stand

It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how they were. He had created sculptures for Berlin’s Olympic stadium, and others for the Nazis’ Prora holiday resort. After decades of disappearance in the complex and in some cases impenetrable art black market, some historical relics belonging to Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich have been recovered.

Once mounted, cavalrymen would reach the battlefield on horseback, dismount and then fight on foot, [33] essentially acting as mobile light infantry. Horse transports were particularly inadequate in deep offensive operations, just like they were in 1914. But with the fall of Berlin, a large part of chancellery was completely destroyed by the Red Army, along with scores of other historic buildings in the City. It is as if the dismal dialectic set up by Goebbels in Munich in 1937 – on the one hand heroic, neoclassical German art sanctioned by the Nazis, and on the other modern art made by Jews and “degenerate” foreigners that often ended up being burned by Nazi functionaries – was still playing out in the first decades of West Germany’s existence. Remnants of Army cavalry fell back into Austria; 22,000 men surrendered to the Western allies, bringing with them 16,000 horses.

Hitler’s Horses by Arthur Brand, review — the ‘Indiana Jones

He is a Dutch art detective who recovers treasures stolen from his mostly Jewish clients in the 1930s and 40s, and he also checks the authenticity of other high-value art for prospective purchasers. Hard-working horses required up to twelve pounds of grain daily; [18] fodder carried by the troops made up a major portion of their supply trains. In December 1939, the United States Cavalry consisted of two mechanized and twelve horse regiments of 790 horses each.Thorak’s “Walking Horses” — standing 16 feet high and 33 feet long — once guarded Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery in Berlin, planted on either side of the stairs to the building. Grow wrote, "there was not a single horse in the American Army in Europe, there was lots of cavalry action". As tank production and Allied supplies made up for the losses of 1941, the cavalry was merged with tank units, forming more effective strike groups. The truth is that these ‘divinely gifted’ artists had close ties with the cultural-political programme of the Federal Republic.