Volume 1 Final Chapter: Flags of the Fathers

"You have to understand one thing, I'm talking about the first German captain, it was on the beachhead of Golden Beach, the German fire was very fierce at that time, they relied on the bunkers on the high ground to strafe our landing craft, we had thirteen brothers in a boat, in the end only I survived, most of them were shot and killed when they jumped ship to land, and the rest were on the way to the fullest, falling under the strafing of MG-42. ”

"I'm scared, no one isn't scared, and I think the Germans are scared too, they're being bombarded by our naval guns and low-altitude strafing from a horde of fighters. ”

"After the men of our company cut the barbed wire fence on the beachhead and blew up the anti-tank piles on the beachhead, there were only seven people left in the company. ”

"At that time, we thought that the Germans were going to retreat, their anti-aircraft machine guns were gone, the 88 guns were gone, the highland bunkers were also destroyed by naval guns, they had no barriers, they were going to fail. ”

"But instead of retreating, they launched a counter-offensive, which was a big deviation from what we expected. ”

"It was a black King Tiger tank, and a dozen black Tiger tanks, and they organized another wave of counterattacks on the ruined positions. ”

"Then a German officer appeared, and he rushed up to our beachhead with a black cross shield and an MP-40 in his hand, and God forbid, we had at least twelve heavy machine guns and six Shermans on our position. ”

"He blocked our fire with that shield and fired at us with his submachine gun, our artillery couldn't hit him, he was too agile. ”

"We all saw that the German officer was wearing a black SS panzer uniform with a cape embroidered with a sharp black cross on his back, and he had an Asian face, and there was an Asian in the SS panzer division, and we couldn't believe it. ”

"He just shuttled around the battlefield, infiltrating and interspersing our positions. ”

"He was a gentleman, and as soon as someone surrendered, he would cease fire immediately, and when he encountered wounded soldiers on both sides, he would cease fire. ”

"We didn't shoot at the time, we watched as he dragged a wounded soldier to our position, and then he raised his shield again and we exchanged fire again. ”

"He was called the German captain, and both sides knew him, and I think the Germans must have regarded him as a hero until he suddenly disappeared, and everyone knew about it later, and the second German captain took over his Black Cross shield after the war. ”

--- memoir of "Bloody Beachhead".

The surviving veteran of the 62nd Regiment of the 3rd Division of the US Army Barnell Schiller.

"Lying on the soft bed, I often had nightmares, and then I woke up violently, and then glad I wasn't in the Bastone Forest at the moment. ”

"His name was Heinrich von Ardennes, and the Baston Forest was their fiefdom for generations, and I think that in the later stages of the war, the German captain should have fought the Battle of the Bulge only to defend his area of the Ardennes, so that he could not disappear at all. ”

"The first time I saw him was on the night of the parachute jump, in a small village on the coast of Normandy, and we fell into his ambush, as if he had known we were going there. ”

"His strange Black Cross soldiers surrounded us, and there were green flames burning around the village, and many times I wondered that the night was just a hallucination of too much stress. ”

"He didn't kill me, he didn't kill any of us in Company E, he just chatted with us as if he were sitting in a Parisian street coffee shop. ”

"The German captain seemed to be very interested in us, and seemed to know the 101st Airborne Division very well, and this interest turned into a good feeling, which was confirmed by our second encounter at Bastogne. ”

"That night he also helped us mark all the German anti-aircraft fire points along the Normandy coast, which greatly accelerated our advance plan, which I have always insisted that the first German captain was not loyal to the FΓΌhrer, he was only fighting for his own purposes. ”

"I know he didn't die in battle, and it's likely that he's still alive, hiding somewhere and living a quiet life, maybe just watching 'Band of Brothers,' which you're filming right now. ”

"One day, my grandson asked me, Grandpa, are you a hero in war?"

"I said I wasn't, but I served with the heroes, fought, and fought for the enemy. ”

--- "Band of Brothers" filming interview footage

101st Airborne Division E Company Captain Dick Winters.

"Today, our children will embark on a journey across the English Channel to participate in the largest landing ever made. ”

"Many of them may have been wounded and killed in battle, but they were there to defend the free world and to wipe out the evil fascists in Berlin. ”

"May God bless them all, and may God bless the souls of all of them. ”

--- D-day, on the eve of Operation Overlord, Churchill.

"The 46th Black Cross Division was immediately mobilized and transferred from the Eastern Front to the Normandy area of the Western Front for local defense. ”

"Heinrich von Ardennes was promoted from brigadier general to major general, and the FΓΌhrer recognized you as a hero of the German captain, fight for Germany!

--- the battlefield order of the "Black Cross" Division of the 46th Division, on the eve of the death march.

"I saw the German captain before he disappeared, at a crossroads outside Munich, and he had taken on a different form in front of me and called himself Varymasas, but I knew that it was not his name, that he wanted to hide, that he wanted to live in peace. ”

"I accepted the deal he offered, and I was willing to give my soul in exchange for that powerful mystical power to continue the struggle for the unification of Germany. ”

"His war is over, isn't it? It wasn't his fault that he lost the war, he did his best, and he deserved a peaceful life. ”

So I took his Black Cross shield and became the second German captain. ”

"They disappeared into the Alps, and no one knows where the German captain and his Black Cross Panzer Division went, but they must still be alive. ”

--- second German captain, the original name has been abandoned, and he calls himself "Germain"

Secret identity: Member of the Thule Society, Ardennes Consortium, member of the Bastone United Chaebol after the war.

"Congratulations, Admiral Stanley, you will be immediately transferred to the Allied General Staff and make your contribution to this war. ”

"I am a citizen of the British Empire, and the bombs of the Germans will not break my fighting spirit, and we will pay back to them a hundred times the scars that London has suffered!"

"Very well, you will participate in the development of a series of detailed plans for Operation Overlord, do not disappoint the Allies, do not disappoint the people. ”

"When we look back, we see that it was a great time that can never be surpassed. ”

"The people are longing for victory, they are rejecting war, there is no good or evil, wrong and right, there are only differences in ideas and beliefs between the two sides, and history is nothing but a lie of the victors, and the losers only deserve to be resurrected and hated. ”

"When I sat in the tank and fled with my people, the battlefield behind me was far away from us. ”

"I heard the sound of gunfire, the sound of cannons, and the sound of the Soviets in Ulla, where a battle of the end was going on, and the wheels of fate that were destined by time were still running forward. ”

"So, goodbye then. ”

--- first German captain, Heinrich von Ardennes, internally called Hu Feng.

On the outskirts of Berlin, outside the Kumesdorf weapons test site.

Two dark green pillars of demonic light descended from the sky, and two strangers in armored officer uniforms appeared in place, each holding an MP-40 submachine gun.

"Sarodar, you brought me here just to see the tiny weapons of these mortal ants?"

"There's a beautiful little baby here, and you'll soon understand its charm, Sargeras. ”

In the center of the proving ground, a huge steel monster was quietly parked there.

Rat Tank II test vehicle.

As Hu Feng said, the wheel of fate destined by time is still rolling forward and crushing away.