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SS, Einsatzkommando, Officers,
Spanish Civil War Veterans
Honour Chevron Wearers
"You're falling apart, Woermann. You despise our ruthlessness. Well, you do not grab history by the throat and ride the next one-thousand year future without brutality and courage!"
Sturmbannführer Erich Kaempffer was an officer in the SS Einsatzkommando in Romania. Before World War II, he'd fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Franco regime. He was sent to reinforce Hauptmann Klaus Woermann in the Dinu Pass in 1941. "Something" had been killing Woermann's Alpenkorps troops inside the ancient keep where they'd set up their headquarters.
Kaempffer arrived riding atop an armored car, accompanied by with his adjutant and a contingent of Einsatzkommando, who immediately rounded up the villagers and shot three of them over the protests of Hauptmann Woermann. Kaempffer took five hostages from among the surviving villagers and warned the local priest, Father Fonescu, that if any more German soldiers died those five people would be executed, and that this would go on until the Partisan activity stopped... or until the SS ran out of villagers.
He took up residence in the keep, immediately taking command and throwing his weight around, such as ordering Feldwebel Oster to ensure his Einsatzkommando were quartered. He questioned Woermann's competence and abilities and was very hostile towards him, accusing him of making up the more supernatural elements of the death to excuse his own shortcomings as a commanding officer. Woermann acidly fired back that his competence was proven in combat against actual soldiers, not slaughtering civilians like Kaempffer.
He is dressed in inaccurate prewar black. This was a conscious decision of director Michael Mann who was insistent on visually distinguishing the Wehrmacht and the SS from one another.
His possessing an Anti-Partisan Badge is an anachronism. The movie takes place in 1941, whereas the badge wasn't created until 1944.
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SS, Einsatzkommando, Officers,
Spanish Civil War Veterans
Honour Chevron Wearers
"You're falling apart, Woermann. You despise our ruthlessness. Well, you do not grab history by the throat and ride the next one-thousand year future without brutality and courage!"
Sturmbannführer Erich Kaempffer was an officer in the SS Einsatzkommando in Romania. Before World War II, he'd fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Franco regime. He was sent to reinforce Hauptmann Klaus Woermann in the Dinu Pass in 1941. "Something" had been killing Woermann's Alpenkorps troops inside the ancient keep where they'd set up their headquarters.
Kaempffer arrived riding atop an armored car, accompanied by with his adjutant and a contingent of Einsatzkommando, who immediately rounded up the villagers and shot three of them over the protests of Hauptmann Woermann. Kaempffer took five hostages from among the surviving villagers and warned the local priest, Father Fonescu, that if any more German soldier
s died those five people would be executed, and that this would go on until the Partisan activity stopped... or until the SS ran out of villagers.
He took up residence in the keep, immediately taking command and throwing his weight around, such as ordering Feldwebel Oster to ensure his Einsatzkommando were quartered. He questioned Woermann's competence and abilities and was very hostile towards him, accusing him of making up the more supernatural elements of the death to excuse his own shortcomings as a commanding officer. Woermann acidly fired back that his competence was proven in combat against actual soldiers, not slaughtering civilians like Kaempffer.
He is dressed in inaccurate prewar black. This was a conscious decision of director Michael Mann who was insistent on visually distinguishing the Wehrmacht and the SS from one another.
His possessing an Anti-Partisan Badge is an anachronism. The movie takes place in 1941, whereas the badge wasn't created until 1944.
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