The first Iron Cross of the campaign, (German Invasion of Western Europe, May 1940) however, was awareded to an ss officer, Captain Krass, of the Leibstandarte regiment, who, on the mornin of May 11, crossed the Ijssel river in Holland with a small patrol, penetrated 40 miles into Dutch territory, and bought back a hundred Dutch soldiers whom he and his little force had captured during their invasion.
-Taken from Second World War, New Edition by Martin Gilbert on page 62.
Who said small groups can't take prisoners?
And don't think what happened in movies is what happens commonly, part of the movies are just Hollywood exaggeration.
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Another useless post by Echo
01-14-2002, 07:55 AM
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