During his service with the Wehrmacht Müller had fought in the Polish and French campaigns. Siegfried Müller also experienced life and many near-death experiences on the Eastern Front. Things didn’t get much better in the Western campaigns during which Kongo-Müller was seriously wounded.
Their favoured method of killing was to make a nun drink gasoline and then cut her open to set her on fire. Children were tied between Jeeps and torn apart. Crucifixion and castration were the norm. Only those who were there would understand (the scale of gratuitous depravities).’
Glancing to my right I saw a sight that shocked me to the core. Silhouetted against the lighter shadows, I could make out half-crouching running figures.
But they are no match for a prowling marauder for whom death is no more to be feared than is birth. The mercenary turned arms dealer has a single lead and an insatiable thirst for a messy and vengeful justice.
When the actor Roger Moore passed away on May 23, 2017, I felt a personal sense of loss. The Thespian is perhaps best known for his part as James Bond; others will relate better to his role in The Saint TV series.
Mercenary ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare (1919-2022) was perhaps the best-known of the European mercenaries who fought in the Congo Crisis. Born to Irish parents in Calcutta he was educated in England. A rarity for mercenaries who spend their lives on the frontlines, Hoare, at 101 years old seemingly benefited from the unstinting devotion of a very special and caring guardian angel. A veteran of numerous conflicts, Mike Hoare earned his spurs as an officer in the London Irish Rifles.
Born in 1929, Belgian national Jean Schramme had little need to travel to the Congo Republic. As manager of a vast estate in the Belgian Congo, Schramme was already a Congo national during the Congo Crisis (1960 – 1965). The setting to his contribution was the scene of the unrest following the breakaway of mineral-rich Katanga and Kasai Provinces.
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