Following Hitler’s suicide, Milch attempted to flee Germany, but was captured by Allied forces on the Baltic coast on May 4, 1945. On surrendering he presented his baton to the Commando-Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts, who was so disgusted by what he had seen when liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that he broke the baton over Milch's head.

Does anyone know if this is really true?

Erhard Milch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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LOL. Interesting story but have not heard it before. Don't know if it is true. I would think that it would be difficult to break one of those batons. Surprised Milch survived. If it is true.

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I try to avoid Irving for obvious reasons, but he has an account of the 'baton-beating' on his site with an extract from what is said to be Milch's diary.
I won't quote or link as it's dripping with bias but it's easily googled.

It is intriguing that it only seems to come up clearly on Irving & Wiki, which immediately casts something of a pall over it. I could see the Brigadier keeping schtumm but I would have expected the story to be more widespread than that, and perhaps verified from elsewhere.

Cheers,
Adam.

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"Wars cannot be fought with dream stuff" - Sir Percy Hobart.

So the story seems to be ending in the trash can then...?!!

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Is it mentioned elsewhere? I have not been able to find other references to that incident other than from David Irving. If not, then...................

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