German Escort: DAILY BRIEFING
THE LATEST More than 26,000 Yugoslav troops have pulled out of Kosovo in recent days, leaving around 14,000 still in the province, NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Robin Clifford said Wednesday. "Over 26,000 of the originally estimated 41,000 (Yugoslav army) forces in Kosovo have now left," he said in Pristina, the Kosovo capital.Clifford said he was confident that the Yugoslav troops would have abandoned all of Kosovo by the Sunday deadline set under the peace deal that...
German Escort: Intimate lessons in history
As an American Jew, author Binnie Kirshenbaum knew about the 20th century history of her people. But it was as a traveler in Germany that she came to understand it. She was on a book tour arranged by her German publisher. One night, sitting across the dinner table from her German escort, the middle-age woman announced that she had something to say. Kirshenbaum had become fond of this combination translator, driver, and tour guide during their week together. She was taken aback when the woman...
German Escort: Setting the record straight on the phony Soviet martyrs
The World War II Diary on your Dec. 29 Culture, etc, page states that, in December 1944, in the western outskirts of Budapest, German troops killed two Soviet emissaries approaching German lines with a surrender demand. As a Hungarian veteran and military historian, I must set the record straight. The infamous Gen. Fjodor Tolbuchin and his pillaging Soviet troops were attacking the western edges of Budapest. After days of heavy bombardment of the defenders' fortifications, there was...
