

Operation Greif: Assassinate Eisenhower?
Did the Nazis really try to kill General Eisenhower during the Battle of the Bulge’s Operation Greif in December 1944?
by Charles Whiting
Sixty years ago, on the morning of Monday, December 18, 1944, a mixed group of white MPs and black American service troops stood guard on the little bridge at Aywaille in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. Two days before, the Germans had attacked some 20 miles away and had broken through the American front virtually everywhere.
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Now rumors abounded on all sides. The Germans had dropped paratroopers; German saboteurs were cutting American landlines way beyond the
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I especially found this article of interest, as my father, Sam Dickey Jr., was at Henri-Chapelle and part of the firing squad that executed Schmidt and his two fellow Nazi soldiers. He was with the 509th MP Bn, and told me the story many times. His birthday was December 16th, and he remarked this wasn’t the birthday present he had hoped for!
Thank you.