[ExI] two years in the slammer for blammisphy?

[BillK]

On 5/19/10, ddraig wrote:
> My brother knows a guy whose father was in one of the german tank units. The
> story he told is that the poles were told that the german tanks were fakes,
> wooden bodies on top of car chassis. They galloped at full charge at the
> tanks, the germans sitting in them astonished at what they were seeing and
> wondering what on EARTH the poles were up to. The officer in charge galloped
> up to the lead tank, said "See! Wood!", slashed at the tank with his sabre,
> which broke.
>
> He at that point realised that the tank was real, and he had led his men
> into a slaughter. At which point he pulled out his pistol and shot himself.
> The germans promptly killed all of the poles.
>
> No idea if this is true or not, but it makes more sense than "brave poles
> died in futile suicide charge against modern tanks"
>
> Are you sure you have seen a picture? Not just heard a story or seen it in a
> movie?
>
>


Wikipedia says it was all made up for Nazi war propaganda.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cavalry>

On 1 September 2009 Sir Simon Jenkins accused Poles of "the most
romantic and idiotic act of suicide of modern war."  On 21 September
2009, The Guardian was forced to publish an admission that his article
"repeated a myth of the second world war, fostered by Nazi
propagandists, when it said that Polish lancers turned their horses to
face Hitler's panzers. There is no evidence that this occurred."
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(But everybody likes death or glory myths, don't they?).


BillK