Wurth said. “I’ll spare you the details and cut to the total casualties:-S.S.: ten killed and three wounded. Total paratrooper casualties: eighteen killed and three wounded. 9 millimeter shell casings, shrapnel from two grenade explosions, paratrooper bayonets, Lugers and British Army Wembly revolvers were found at the scene of the incident. All S.S. weapons were accounted for. The report places the blame for the incident squarely on the shoulders of my paras and completely clears and exonerates the S.S.” Wurth screwed up the report into a tight ball and threw it into a corner of his office. “The regiment, the Luftwaffe and Goering will not stand for this. There’ll be hell to pay, you mark my words.” “And as for improving Inter Service relations? Don’t make me laugh,” von Schnakenberg said. “This judicial joke will put back Inter Service relations by at least five years. “Oberstleutnant, how’s the digging and photography of the corpses proceeding at Fairfax?”
