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[Fan Art] England in North Africa
Title: Kreig Ohne Hass, Who Dares Wins
Author/Artist: ca_manzanita aka japdrow
Character(s) or Pairing(s): England, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece
Rating: G
Warnings: Smoking, England's eyebrows, and inconsistent coloring
Summary: While in the African desert, England's not being a jerk for once.
Germany and England share a smoke with a barb wire fence, meant to contain POWs, between them. You're not suppose to be able to tell who is the prisoner and who is the captor.
The leader of the Axis forces in North Africa, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel aka 'The Desert Fox', called the North African campaign <i>Kreig Ohne Hass</i>--The War Without Hate. In the barren, unforgiving deserts no war crimes were ever recorded and both sides, mainly the Germans and British Commonwealth, practiced an unwritten code of chivalry. Common examples were fair treatment of prisoners and wounded from both sides were treated in the same dressing stations and field hospitals.
Today's well-renown special forces brigade, the British SAS, made its debut in the North Africa, 1941. Till the end of the war, the British units conducted operations alongside with their Free French and Belgium counterparts. Greece's Sacred Band, a special forces unit of free Greeks, was to also join the SAS but the plan never went ahead when the SAS commander was captured in 1943.
When the war ended, the unit broken up and/or were disbanded. Later on, the units were reformed in their own respected countries but all four have similar unit badges and the same motto: "Who Dares WIns".
The SAS has served as a model for the special forces in other countries, including America's Delta Force.
Author/Artist: ca_manzanita aka japdrow
Character(s) or Pairing(s): England, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece
Rating: G
Warnings: Smoking, England's eyebrows, and inconsistent coloring
Summary: While in the African desert, England's not being a jerk for once.
Germany and England share a smoke with a barb wire fence, meant to contain POWs, between them. You're not suppose to be able to tell who is the prisoner and who is the captor.
The leader of the Axis forces in North Africa, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel aka 'The Desert Fox', called the North African campaign <i>Kreig Ohne Hass</i>--The War Without Hate. In the barren, unforgiving deserts no war crimes were ever recorded and both sides, mainly the Germans and British Commonwealth, practiced an unwritten code of chivalry. Common examples were fair treatment of prisoners and wounded from both sides were treated in the same dressing stations and field hospitals.
Today's well-renown special forces brigade, the British SAS, made its debut in the North Africa, 1941. Till the end of the war, the British units conducted operations alongside with their Free French and Belgium counterparts. Greece's Sacred Band, a special forces unit of free Greeks, was to also join the SAS but the plan never went ahead when the SAS commander was captured in 1943.
When the war ended, the unit broken up and/or were disbanded. Later on, the units were reformed in their own respected countries but all four have similar unit badges and the same motto: "Who Dares WIns".
The SAS has served as a model for the special forces in other countries, including America's Delta Force.