{"id":3624,"date":"2019-08-23T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2019-08-23T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T23:16:34","slug":"deaths-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/08\/23\/deaths-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Death\u2019s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Retreating from Leningrad respect for the Soviets had grown amongst SS Totenkopf, elevated from Untermensch \u2013 \u2018suhumans\u2019 \u2013 to Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n<p>After the bombardment from the eerily howling Katyushas \u2013 \u2018Stalin\u2019s organs\u2019 \u2013 half of Franz\u2019s platoon had been blown to bits, their blood staining the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Then line after line of T-34 tanks covered in infantrymen appeared over the frozen steppe.<\/p>\n<p>The odds were impossible, yet none would surrender, warriors moulded by the code of blood, iron and unconquerable will.<\/p>\n<p>Franz, 19, watching the approaching hordes, glanced at the Totenkopf \u2013 \u2018Death\u2019s Head\u2019 \u2013 insignia on his lapel.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this was what he existed for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retreating from Leningrad respect for the Soviets had grown amongst SS Totenkopf, elevated from Untermensch \u2013 \u2018suhumans\u2019 \u2013 to Bolsheviks. After the bombardment from the eerily howling Katyushas \u2013 \u2018Stalin\u2019s organs\u2019 \u2013 half of Franz\u2019s platoon had been blown to bits, their blood staining the snow. Silence. Then line after line of T-34 tanks covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8113,281,894,8111,3082,295,41,3766,8116,4773,8114,8118,5648,8119,8109,1034,7988,8112,1838,3149,8110,8115,5695,8117,1705,6014],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bits","tag-blood","tag-bolsheviks","tag-bombardment","tag-code","tag-death","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-hordes","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-infantrymen","tag-insignia","tag-iron","tag-lapel","tag-leningrad","tag-line","tag-odds","tag-platoon","tag-silence","tag-snow","tag-soviets","tag-steppe","tag-tanks","tag-totenkopf","tag-warriors","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3625,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}