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Military Despatches Vol 29 November 2019 We will remember them Facts and figures about World War I Mind games The use of Psy-ops to undermine the enemy The hunt for Bin Laden Who was he and why did it take so long to catch him Forged in Battle Hawker Hurricane, icon of the Battle of Britain For the military enthusiast CONTENTS October 2019 Click on any video below to view Page 12 How much do you know about movie theme songs? Take our quiz and find out. Hipe’s Wouter de The old South African Goede interviews former Defence Force used 28’s gang boss David a mixture of English, Williams. Afrikaans, slang and techno-speak that few South Korea Special Forces outside the military could hope to under- stand. Some of the terms Features were humorous, some were clever, while others 6 were downright crude. Ten Nazis hanged at Nuremberg The Nuremberg trials were a 40 series of military tribunals held Rank Structure Part of Hipe’s “On the after World War II by the Allied This month we look at the South Korean military couch” series, this is an forces under international law 24 interview with one of and the laws of war. Messing with your mind author Herman Charles 16 In modern times the techniques 44 Bosman’s most famous The war to end all wars of weakening the moral of op- A matter of survival characters, Oom Schalk We look at some of the facts ponents has become an art form. We look at handling animals Lourens. A taxi driver was shot Hipe spent time in and figures of one of the world’s 30 that you have hunted or trapped. dead in an ongoing Hanover Park, an area most deadly wars in history. plagued with gang The hunt for Bin Laden war between rival taxi 22 Who was he, and why did it take organisations. violence, to view first- hand how Project Heavy metal so long to bring him to justice? Quiz Ceasefire is dealing with While “sticks and stones may 36 31 the situation. break your bones”, weapons made of metal could do a lot Straight Shooting Remember me? Hipe TV brings you videos ranging from actuality to humour and every- more damage on the battlefield. This month we feature the CZ- This month we show you 15 fa- thing in between. Interviews, mini-documentaries and much more. 75, Manurhin MR73, Walther mous figures from military his- PPK, and Walther P38. tory. You tell us who they are. Check out Hipe TV and remember to like, comment, share and subscribe. 00 3 CONTENTS Page 78 Editor’s PUBLISHER Sitrep Hipe Media EDITOR Matt Tennyson DEPUTY EDITOR o, the year is almost at an a talk about World War I to a John Verster end, and so passes anoth- fairly large group of students PHOTO EDITOR er decade. Hard to believe between the ages of 13 and 17. November in military history S Regine Lord we’re almost 20 years into the I was appalled at their lack of new millennium. knowledge about World War I. CONTRIBUTORS Head-to-Head Forged in Battle Book Review This month, on 11 November, What exactly were they being Raymond Fletcher, Ryan Mur- we commemorate the 101st an- taught in history classes? phy, Matt O’Brien, Matt Tenny- 46 64 76 niversary of the signing of the Another problem is that in son, Lt Cmdr Glen von Zeil. The Elite armistice, bringing the fighting South Africa many of us have Strongest military forces Hawker Hurricane The story of the Rhodesian in World War I to an end. become desensitized to violence This month we take a look at World War II workhorse. Military Despatches is pub- SAS. A must read for those in- I sometimes wonder how long and violent death. machine guns of the ten stron- lished on-line every month. terested in military history. society will continue to hold Re- Take into account that during The articles used in Military gest military forces in the world. membrance Day events and pay the Border War a total of 791 Battlefield Despatches are copyrighted Front Cover homage to those that lost their members of the SADF were and may not be used without Famous Figures 70 lives during the World Wars. killed in action or died as a direct prior permission from the edi- Battle of Amiens This month’s front cover shows All of those the fought in and result of combat. In South Africa tor. 58 one of the many cemeteries in The opening of the Allied Of- survived World War I have long more than twice that number are The views stated in this mag- Norman Schwarzkopf Jr France where those that fell since passed on. And there are murdered each month. fensive that would ultimately azine do not necessary reflect Decorated Vietnam veteran, during World War I are buried. not many World War II veterans According to the official crime lead to the end of World War I. the views of Hipe!, the editor, four-star general and command- On 11 November, we remem- still alive. stats 57 people are murdered or the staff, or Hipe Media. er of the United States Central ber them. Many of our readers fought in die violent deaths every day. Gaming Command, he would lead all our own war that lasted from 26 That amount to 1,710 a month or Hipe! coalition forces in the Gulf War. 74 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. 20,805 per year. So many South P.O. Box 31216, Tokai, 7966 This was Stormin’ Norman. Radio Commander A total of 23 years, six months, Africans don’t really care about South Africa. three weeks and two days. what happened more than 100 Set in the Vietnam War, you use The sad thing is that none of years ago. email only a map and your radio to sort situations outs. us are youngsters anymore and The thing is that we have to [email protected] every year our numbers become remember what happened in the Movie Review fewer. So who will remember us past. Or there is a very real dan- Back Issues when we’re gone?\ ger of us doing the same thing To view any back issues of 75 The problem is that the young- again. Military Despatches, go to Letters from Iwo Jima er generation do not have that Until next month. www.militarydespatches.co.za The battle for Iwo Jima from much knowledge about either of or click here. the Japanese view point. An the World Wars. excellent movie. Last year I was invited to give Matt 4 5 Top Ten Top Ten folio. Minister of the Interior in Ad- ern Front before returning to the Ten Nazis hanged at Nuremberg After the German invasion of olf Hitler’s cabinet from 1933 West as a Staff Officer. In 1918 Poland in 1939, Frank was ap- to 1943 and as the last governor he again won the Iron Cross for The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces pointed Governor-General of of the Protectorate of Bohemia gallantry in action. under international law and the laws of war. Their decisions marked a turning point between clas- the occupied Polish territories. and Moravia. sical and contemporary international law. During his tenure, he institut- As the head of the Kriminal- ed a reign of terror against the polizei (criminal police) in Mu- n late 1943, during the Tri- known to the Allies, died in May tion of the International Crimi- civilian population and became nich, Frick took part in Hitler’s partite Dinner Meeting at 1945 and was tried in absentia. nal Court. directly involved in the mass failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, the Tehran Conference, the Another defendant, Robert Ley, At the first trial of the Inter- murder of Jews. for which he was convicted of I He engaged in the use of high treason. He managed to Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, committed suicide within a national Military Tribunal, 11 proposed executing 50,000– week of the trial’s commence- of the defendants present were forced labour and oversaw four avoid imprisonment and soon 100,000 German staff officers ment. sentenced to death, and ten of the extermination camps; the afterwards became a leading once the Allies had won the Adolf Hitler and Joseph were executed by hanging. policies of enslavement and ex- figure of the Nazi Party (NS- war. US President Franklin D. Goebbels had both committed termination would later be used DAP) in the Reichstag. Roosevelt joked that perhaps suicide in the spring of 1945 10. Hans Frank extensively in conquered terri- After Hitler became Chancel- 49,000 would do. to avoid capture. Heinrich Born on 23 May 1900, Hans tories of the Soviet Union. By lor of Germany in 1933, Frick Churchill, believing them Himmler attempted to commit 1942 Frank had lost Hitler’s fa- joined the new government to be serious, denounced the suicide, but was captured be- vour, but remained head of the and was named Reich Minister idea of “the cold blooded exe- fore he could succeed; he com- General Government until its of the Interior. He was instru- cution of soldiers who fought mitted suicide one day after be- collapse in early 1945. mental in formulating laws that After the defeat of the Ger- for their country” and that he ing arrested by British forces. Sentenced to death at the consolidated the Nazi regime man Empire in 1918, he contin- would rather be “taken out in Heinrich Müller disappeared Nuremberg trials, he was exe- (Gleichschaltung), as well as ued his career as a professional the courtyard and shot” himself the day after Hitler’s suicide, cuted by hanging on 16 October laws that defined the Nazi ra- soldier with the much-reduced than partake in any such action.