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04-23-2005, 04:22 AM
A truce lets Canadians tour behind enemy lines
April 22, 1945: BAD PYRMONT, Germany — German soldiers respectfully salute Canadian officers as German Luftwaffe officers and "monocled colonels of the SS" pass by. It could only happen in the "open" German town of Bad Pyrmont, where retreating Germans have called a truce with advancing Allies. It's been an eye-opening experience for RCAF officer Ron Gadsby. "It seemed to us to be part of a cockeyed chapter of an imaginary war that might have been designed by Walt Disney," he tells CBC listeners.
Link (http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1669-11555/conflict_war/ve-day_countdown/clip5)
April 22, 1945: BAD PYRMONT, Germany — German soldiers respectfully salute Canadian officers as German Luftwaffe officers and "monocled colonels of the SS" pass by. It could only happen in the "open" German town of Bad Pyrmont, where retreating Germans have called a truce with advancing Allies. It's been an eye-opening experience for RCAF officer Ron Gadsby. "It seemed to us to be part of a cockeyed chapter of an imaginary war that might have been designed by Walt Disney," he tells CBC listeners.
Link (http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1669-11555/conflict_war/ve-day_countdown/clip5)