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I see a spelling mistake or two sparks more discussion that any other post. I'll just make a few more typo's and that should keep us going to New Years. Of course its a nonsense word like Mary Poppins "supercal......" . The word stems from my fathers school days and was reputed to be the l...

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Nachname: Tubach Vorname: Robert Dienstgrad: Obergefreiter Geburtsdatum: 08.05.1907 Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 11.01.1945 Robert Tubach ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Futa-Pass (Italien) . Endgrablage: Block 48 Grab 36 Robert Tubach rest in the graveyard at Futa-pass Block 48 grave 36 Der deutsche ...

how 'advanced' ?? to translate unzähligen ineinandergeschobenen. Its not so bad if you learn to breakup the compound words. To create new words germans just string smaller words together instead of going to Latin or Greek root to create something. Thus unzähligen Zahl =count, igen converts noun to a...

Veteran meeting Famous people? Some of the people my father met. First name bases so to speak: General Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt General Erwin Rauch. Graf von Schlieffen ( grandson or greatgrandson of Schleiffen) barracks roommate for basic training General Walter von Reichenau also met C...

Strike hard, don't dribble! ( or : Hammer it, don't tap it) Not a literal translation, but close to the intention. Guderian wanted his units to be decisive, to stike hard so as to overwhelm the opposition before they could regroup. He didn't his men to be tentative and take potshots here and there s...

latin is indeed very useful, together with french (which i hate because of the pronounciation) you understand almost any romanian language in written form. with german, i dont know how far it helps there, but we have some words rooting... Salve I think that should be "Romance Language" not...

Hallo Jan,
Mein Vater diente unter Blumentritt und Brockdorff in der 8 Preussicher regiment.

Die Armee Blumentritt enstand von 10 April bis 6 Mai 1945.
Folgent hatte er das kommando von Armee? Schleswig Holstein von 6 Mai bis 1 Juni 1945
Am 1 Juni 1945 Englischer gefangenschaft.

Wegen der Panzervernichtungsabzeichen muss ich Gelegenheit abwarten! "


Panzer/ vernichtungs/abzeichen = tank destruction award/badge/decoration

Roughly- About a Tank destruction award I'll have to wait for another opportunity.

there is nobody list by that name in the graves registry and only 6 persons in the german phone book. So not a very common name at all.

I supposed that was designated for Barbarossa. However by 1943 my father's unit was defending a front of 2 kilometers with only 60 men.
A bit sparse, don't you think.

"Didn't know about the Vocativ. I thought there were only five cases in Latin' The vocative case (calling case if you want) is not all that important. However it is famous in history. It was used to address a person. So when Caesar spoke to Brutus it was in the vocative " Et tu Brute!"...

Latin may give an understanding of order in a language and thus parallels can be applied to German, English and the other Romance languages. There are however many differences. Just in the fact that Latin has 6 cases and German only 4 for each declension. Latin did not use an agreeing article like t...