Incident at Brettheim, 1945

Join us for a military history documentary. Various guest speakers will attend, with a discussion following.

Incident at Brettheim (Die Männer von Brettheim) was produced by local Realschule students from Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1995. It explores war crimes committed in the last days of the war. Survivors recall SS atrocities and the arrival of U.S. troops.

• In the last days of the war, in April 1945, four Hitler Youth were disarmed in the Franconian village of Brettheim by local inhabitants, who wanted to prevent the destruction of their village in a senseless battle with the Americans. The same evening, the SS arrived in the village and interrogated town residents. What followed was the murder of local civilians and a vicous battle against allied forces.