True story ???

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2005)

When I saw the flick for the first time about 30 years ago I've found it very funny, very hippie but absolutely surrealistic. Now I'm reading Antony Beevor's "Berlin - The Downfall 1945" and I've the capital about the west allies behavior after the crossing Rhein. MP settled many billboards with the words "No speeding, no looting, no fraternizing but the scale of plundering was enormous so one of the officers from Scots Gurd, wrote in his memories that crossing the Rhein should be named "Operation Plunder". One of the SAS divisions robbed paintings collection and hide canvas in the mortars barrels. Beevor wrote that in "one or two cases" safes with jewelry were robbed out from the deserted mansions.