u/Elonth

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I've recently become focused on the early years of the formation of what would eventually become modern special forces pioneered in WW2. My current focus is on the early formation and missions of the SAS. I'm looking for any and all information available on Walter Essner.

Walter Essner and Herbert Brueckner were both german POW who were recruited to help train the early SIG volunteers. From what I can find Walter Essner not a lot is easily accessible on the two men. I can't even find any hard historical proof or reports of what happened on the events that transpired on June 12. The only thing that is clear is that Herbert Brueckner betrayed the others. What is not clear is if this was a spur of the moment decision (I doubt.) or a long plan as a lone individual trying to make a difference from beyond a POW camp.

The only information I can find of Walter Essner's fate is in an article by Gavin Mortimer which alleges that Walter Essner despite Brueckners betrayl remained with the SAS forces. His true intentions or motives will obviously never be known to the world. However I have to wonder if the man did legitimately believe in the anti-nazi cause saw his chance to make a difference with the unfortunate outcome being another man used the same oppertunity to betray that trust. Despite all that he still returned to a larger amount of the SAS forces. The only accounts beyond this point is that he was told to be considered a traitor by Maurice "Tiffin" Tiefenbrunner. Who had grown up a jew in germany having fled it to join the british army. Sadly Essner would later attempt to escape from his reinprisinment from fear of execution on suspicion or a legitiment double agent trying to remain infiltrated I doubt we will ever truely know.

I would like to know honestly anything I can about this very real and human mixed alligences and histories that brought these men into contact with eachother and the later outcome of their actions.

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u/Elonth — 2 days ago

This Meme Video was made to pay respects to all the loose sprew bits lost to the immaterium and time. "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." -J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.

"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it... White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."

The context for this video. And...why? just why?

>!I break my bits a lot... I really shouldn't play non-brick factions. My most recent bit was the hammer head of a stoneguard was primed and fell into my blue/grey rugg. Normally when a bit that small falls into the warp (my rug/floor) It can take sometimes hours to find. I decided to go to bed and instead of suffering. Through a fluke I ended up stepping into a place in my living room I would never normally step. My foot landing on it. To my joy I found it. Zennithal shade highlight down so the grey I was looking for would have never been found. This was the immediate imagine in my head to my Catharsis.!<

>!So in honor of not wasting potentially hours of my time finding it I decided I would rededicate that saved time to learning an amateur level of skill at something I've been putting off for a long time. low-quality meme editing. AI is heresy and cheating yourelf! So what probable could take some people 5-20 minutes to make this I spent the better part of 3 hours learning...editing...relearning...reediting adding new effects re-editing those effects frame by frame. Bla bla bla. At one point i used the bit where deagle finds it from the extended...but that didn't fit the betrayl/random luck vibe. So i started over and here we are.!<

To all those sprew bits we lost.

u/Elonth — 9 days ago