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OK I admit: I know absolutely NOTHING about military stuff. Zero.
But my WIP happens to be set in the WW2 and though it does not concern the military specifically, I do have some specific questions.
It concerns the final battles of 1944-1945, taking place in one of the last bastions of German occupation/annexation, the Alsace, on the eastern border to Germany.
The Wehrmacht was battling the US forces in Operation Nordwind.
I don't need to know any of the actual battle details. They don't come into the story.
But the main characters conserned are the MC, a female SOE agent based in Colmar, and a Wehrmacht Oberleutnant who has fallen for her. She is playing along in the form of a honey trap, in that she hopes to get secrets from him in pillow talk.
He genuinly loves her, and in fact wants to marry her. He trusts her completely.
There had been not much action in Alsace until November-December 1944. They met in June but he was recalled to Berlin for a few months for strategy planning, possibly, and now he is back.
I want to know: what exactly did an Oberleutnant (2nd Lieutenant) do? Would he be actually fighting (please don't laugh at me for the stupidity of this question! I've just never considered it before!) Would he have been in acute danger? How often would he be able to leave the battlefield and visit his lover in Colmar? Can you imagine/suggest a scenario in which he returns, battle weary, and confides secrets to her? Or would he be away for weeks, (staying in tents?) and never see her during this time? What kind of things would he tell her? he is of course under extreme stress, and talking to her provides emotional release.
I know for a fact that Hitler sent Heinrich Himmler to the Alsace in this time to take control of the forces even though Himmler was totally inexperienced. I want him to reveal this fact to the MC, so that a bomb attack on Himmler can be planned.
Eventually, of course, the Americans won.
And that's about it. These chapters have not been written yet so I am open to all scenarios!
But my WIP happens to be set in the WW2 and though it does not concern the military specifically, I do have some specific questions.
It concerns the final battles of 1944-1945, taking place in one of the last bastions of German occupation/annexation, the Alsace, on the eastern border to Germany.
The Wehrmacht was battling the US forces in Operation Nordwind.
I don't need to know any of the actual battle details. They don't come into the story.
But the main characters conserned are the MC, a female SOE agent based in Colmar, and a Wehrmacht Oberleutnant who has fallen for her. She is playing along in the form of a honey trap, in that she hopes to get secrets from him in pillow talk.
He genuinly loves her, and in fact wants to marry her. He trusts her completely.
There had been not much action in Alsace until November-December 1944. They met in June but he was recalled to Berlin for a few months for strategy planning, possibly, and now he is back.
I want to know: what exactly did an Oberleutnant (2nd Lieutenant) do? Would he be actually fighting (please don't laugh at me for the stupidity of this question! I've just never considered it before!) Would he have been in acute danger? How often would he be able to leave the battlefield and visit his lover in Colmar? Can you imagine/suggest a scenario in which he returns, battle weary, and confides secrets to her? Or would he be away for weeks, (staying in tents?) and never see her during this time? What kind of things would he tell her? he is of course under extreme stress, and talking to her provides emotional release.
I know for a fact that Hitler sent Heinrich Himmler to the Alsace in this time to take control of the forces even though Himmler was totally inexperienced. I want him to reveal this fact to the MC, so that a bomb attack on Himmler can be planned.
Eventually, of course, the Americans won.
And that's about it. These chapters have not been written yet so I am open to all scenarios!