The End of Michael Wittmann

**HistoryMan** · 10-27-2019, 10:15 PM

Couldn't resist ......

**Anderson** · 10-28-2019, 08:09 AM

by Composite

I’m always intrigued in the almost fanatic interest in the great Bren Carrier-killer......and why there doesn’t appear to be such interest in the other German “Aces”...some of whom lasted longer, killed more tanks, served in more vehicle types, took out more proper tanks and survived the conflict.

I understand that ol’ Witters was in the iconic Tiger...and that he was probably most famous for his post D-Day activity against convoys of Brit soft skins and tanks....and he looked “cool”....and his demise remains a mystery....can I ask here, what is YOUR (open to all) reason for Wittman v Carius or Knispel or other.....

..apologies if this seems like a Thread-Hijack....that is not the intention.....

The post war fascination with Wittmann is probably simply that it makes a good story. At the time Germany needed some good stories and Wittmann's action would have been seen as a potential moral booster for the German population. But there were plenty of Wittmann's contemporaries who post war were less giddy about Wittmann's conduct in the action and critical of it from a tactical and professional point of view.