[Wustenfuchs]

An eldery German woman that attends my brother's church gave me this story.

She lived in a small village in eastern Germany when the Soviets were making major advances westward. The Germans were taking a lickin. An attachment from an SS Panzer Division was fighting a rear guard retreat and passed through their town on their way west. She figured they were doomed to a horrible fate. The Soviets took the town and things started going from bad to worse.

She prayed for relief, and it came. The commander of the SS troops decided they owed it to the civilians to try and save them and despite terrible odds they pulled off a surprise counter attack and retook the town.

She said it was a strange sight the following morning, trucks, halftracks and tanks covered with civilians rushing westward.