My Life As A Historian: No, This Sabaton History Episode Is Not A Lost Pulp Novel

This is a story that even Quentin Taratino would have problems pitching to a studio if it weren't real. Sabaton History delivers yet again.

This is why I became a historian. The real stories so often make the most imaginative fiction look pale by comparison. I am with Indy here; why is this story not made into a major motion picture? Read the summary again and tell me that you wouldn't (a) think this is made up and (b) want to see it as a movie anyway:

On the 5th of May 1945, the Second World War in Europe is literally in its final days. As the German lines and Nazi state collapse into free fall, some Nazi hardliners remain fighting until the very moment surrender is announced. At Castle Itter, the lines are blurred as US and German soldiers fight side by side in a medieval castle, home to some of the highest profile prisoners of the war.

Since it's impossible, at this time, to find an honest party in Hollywood or its European counterparts that have the means to make this come to live, the best thing to do is to (a) circulate the source documentation and the works based on them, and (b) write and promote historical fiction based on them--dramatize it--in prose or comic form.

Lean hard into the pulp spirit of this story and give it the hero pulp treatment it so richly deserves. This is already bigger than life. All you need to do is show the reader that and you've got a winner.

I'm going to remember this for my own reasons down the road.