re: World War II's strangest battle: When U.S. and German soldiers fought together

That is a very strange battle, for sure.

They should make a movie about it.

My guess is that the 150 or so 17th SS Division soldaten that attacked were French SS men, i.e. from France. That Waffen SS division had some French soldiers.

Why were the French attacking after Hitler was dead?

Well, some of the prisoners in that location were important French generals and politicians from the French Republic that fell in May, 1940.

The French Waffen SS soldaten figured that if they could get rid of these important French Republic generals and politicians, they might have a better chance of returning to France without being executed as traitors.

I have no idea, I'm just making an educated guess. This attack on this POW center is strange. Surely the 150 or so Waffen SS French soldaten knew that Hitler was dead. I'd very much like to know more about their motives. Sure, they were probably ordered to execute the POWs, but, still, many such orders were disobeyed after Hitler's death.