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Someone with more knowledge than me could probably confirm or disprove this, but I seem to recall that after a certain time graves in Germany are reused, so to speak. I thought it would be longer than twenty five years though so maybe there is another reason.

hi guys and gals,
I only just read this today. Well done to the people who dug deep to keep Feldgrau on track. I don't have much spare cash but will donate $5-10 per month from May, I hope this helps.
Joefraser

On reflection, the book does have a little detail about the weapons used, which may be a little factual. It states that the legionaires in the book were equipped with German weapons left over from WW2, Kar98s, Mp38 and 40s, MG 42s and that some units had Kubelwagons ( though it does say that willys ...

Explodes the myths about nazis in Vietnam and tells it as it was! Devil's Guard by Eric Meyer. Had this bought for me at Xmas. Great I thought, someone has done some research and put together a factual book about any Germans in the Foreign Legion. No, big mistake! Just another story in the mould of ...

Hi, from what I can make out of German Tank kill figures there seems to be a bit of, shall we say, embelishment. I think the propaganda department wanted high figures to feed to the home front. There appears to be situations where any armoured fighting vehicle was classed as an enemy tank ( confusio...

The scenario is; Germany and Austria are united by the Anschluss, Czechoslovakia is in Nazi hands and the Munich Agreement has been signed. Hitler then commits no more agression to other countries whilst still building for war. There is a school of thought that Stalin would have attacked Germany any...

Hi ReinhardH, I am fairly certain that, as the war came to the closing stages, from late 1944 onwards and the Luftwaffe ceased to exist as an airbourne threat, many personel were absorbed into waffen SS units ( maybe Wermacht as well, but I haven't heard of that ). This could explain the answer you ...

hi Gunther,
I don't know if the photo is specifically your grandfathers vehicle. What I can tell you, if my sources are correct, is that the pictured Horch is from the 12th company of the Totenkopf infantry.

Hi, I Hope I am posting this in the right section. At Nuremberg the Waffen SS were declared a criminal organisation. Exactly what was the point in that move? Was it to enable more charges to be placed against members. For the life of me I can't see how you can declare this after the fact and without...

Hi,
does anyone have any original German WW2 medals/militaria for sale. My collection was disappeared by someone who wanted it for free.
Nothing too flash ( I am not rich) just the basics to start me off again.
Thank you.

If you believe The German Defeat in the East, 1944-45 By Samuel W. Mitcham then, The First SS police regiment was from the 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Division. From Tim Ripley Waffen SS at War, the First SS Police Regiment was made up of mainly Hungarians and suffered from desertions. According to a po...

I know what you're saying Paddy, I know a lot of rehabilitating soldiers were posted as camp guards and, if you speak to them, swear they were just perimeter guards and were never a party to or had knowledge of what went on inside the camps. Are they to be believed? Your guess, as they say. Anyway, ...

Hello Postofficeworker, I am going to jump in with an answer here and it won't be much help. I am no expert anyway, I have had real ones in my hand from a medic who served from d-day through to the end of the war, but it was 35 years ago. I am sure any expert on the site would tell you that it would...

Hi, thanks for the replies. I knew he had some files and information, I believe even on secret American communists in the government. Also that American spies had been forbidden to work against the Soviets for fear of upsetting our "friends", even though the Soviets were spying in the U.S....

I don't know if this belongs in this section, but it is post 1945. I was reading a bit about the Gehlen organization today and found a list of some of the people who had been in the organization. I can understand ex-gestapo, maybe ex einstatzgruppen members, at a push. However a lot of the listed na...