Hello There!, Did anyone ever interview Wittmann's gunner Baltasar Woll who survived the war? He died in the 1990's and he never fully recovered from his head injuries he suffered in Normandy 1944. I think he became a electrition. I would love to find out how he survived the war and his capture by the Allied forces. Thanking You......
I must confess the usual urge to yawn strikes at any mention of the somewhat over-covered Wittmann, but a Google with various spellings of Woll's name returns this from 02. I can offer no comment on it's authenticity or veracity, it is what it is, a webpage.: An Interview With Bobby Woll in Panzer Archive I Forum Edit: See MK below, post #5, before proceeding.
I must confess the usual urge to yawn strikes at any mention of the somewhat over-covered Wittmann, but a Google with various spellings of Woll's name returns this from 02. I can offer no comment on it's authenticity or veracity, it is what it is, a webpage.: An Interview With Bobby Woll in Panzer Archive I Forum Ferdinand Porsche: Quite a memory he must have had!
The Woll interview is a fake. From start to finish it is pure invention. It is a cut & paste from a site that was running at the time. The site was devoted to 'Tigers' and 90% of the photos had made up captions and they even had a doctored photo that they claimed to be a photo of Wittmann in action at Villers Bocage. Axis WWII Discussion Group: Doctored photos Worse that that it had a reference section where the superiority of the Tiger was confirmed by first hand accounts from famous 'Aces' and those who saw combat against the Tiger. Every account was fiction. Axis WWII Discussion Group: Please help find a Tiger website The site is long gone
Thanks for confirming that MK, smelt odd but I'm not qualified to comment. Good to have such fraudulence more widely exposed. Which raises the more interesting query than any of the dreary Wittmann fandom; what on earth drives people to fabricate such stuff? Quite bizarre just how much 'strangeness' can go hand-in-hand with tales of German armour. I don't believe most of it is driven by genuine Nazi apologists, more from a peculiar layer of 'cheerleaders'. If their aim is to 'big up' certain units/individuals/actions, in the long run they have quite the opposite affect. Strange, very strange.
Thanks for confirming that MK, smelt odd but I'm not qualified to comment. Good to have such fraudulence more widely exposed. Which raises the more interesting query than any of the dreary Wittmann fandom; what on earth drives people to fabricate such stuff? Quite bizarre just how much 'strangeness' can go hand-in-hand with tales of German armour. I don't believe most of it is driven by genuine Nazi apologists, more from a peculiar layer of 'cheerleaders'. If their aim is to 'big up' certain units/individuals/actions, in the long run they have quite the opposite affect. Strange, very strange. Thanks for that clarification Adam. Funny how those bogus accounts just don't ring true. Not the supposed facts but more the language and tone.
