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One of the most extraordinary episodes of the war, still scarcely know in the West, began on 4 April 1945 on the Dutch offshore island of Texel. Its garrison, the 882nd Battalion of the Wermacht, comprimised some 500 Georgians captured on the Eastern Front. They mutinied and ran amok, killing every German they found. A local resistance leader consulted with the Georgians, and set off with three of them in a local lifeboat to seek aid from the British...........they were subject to six days of interrogation, at the end of which the Georgians were dispatched to a POW camp. No action was taken to assist the Texel mutineers
Hitler signaled personally that 'an example should be made of the rebels.' Some 3600 men of the Wermacht were committed in a battle that lasted more than a fortnight.....a total of 117 local Dutch, 550 Georgians and 800 Germans perished