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lipizzaner rescue: An American General And A German General ~ Pull Off A Secret Collaboration In World War II - 11/30/09 06:49 AM
 
 
May 7, 1945 started early for General George S Patton with a 4am call from General Omar Bradley.  The Germans had just surrendered. Miles away Col. Alois Podhajsky an Austrian, was looking for a way to guarantee the safety of the riding school and the horses he supervised as the Third Reich collapsed around him.
Several day earlier Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker’s XX Corps had captured the renowned Spanish Riding School of Vienna.  It included hundreds of the finest horse bloodlines in all of Europe.  Among this herd were 250 of the prized War Horses, the famous … (10 comments)

 
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