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by SvenW
Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:00 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Airfield Security
Replies: 11
Views: 5582

Lorenz wrote:...

The Luftwaffe did not have a Feldgendarmerie.

--Lorenz

--Lorenz

Hi!

The SS and the Luftwaffe had their own Feldgendarmerie, but in much less numbers than the Heer.
Later in the war, the (Heer) Feldgendarmerie get autority to all Wehrmacht branches.

Sven.
by SvenW
Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:46 am
Forum: Veterans and vet info
Topic: Can anyone help with information about my grandfather?
Replies: 9
Views: 4616

http://www.com-de.pair.com/wast/frame_e.htm


Good source but give them time to answer.

Sven.
by SvenW
Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:59 am
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: MP38/40 with non-folding wooden stock
Replies: 3
Views: 2218

No! :shock: All MP 38, 40, 40/1 had the folding stock. All SMG with wooden stock are of other origin, like the MP Schmeisser-Haenel 41 or the Bergmann MP 34 / MP 35. But I guess you mean the Schmeisser-Haenel 41, because all metall parts are looking very close to the MP 38/40, unlike all other possi...
by SvenW
Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:16 am
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: Panzerfaust
Replies: 11
Views: 5674

The Panzerfaustgrenade was selfpropelled with it's blackpowder propelling charge. :wink:

Zip-file with a short mpeg-clip:

http://www.whq-forum.de/downloads/panzerfaust-01.zip

Sven.

PS.: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/munwai/hasag.htm
by SvenW
Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:36 pm
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: German Military Band Totem?
Replies: 10
Views: 6647

It's called Schellenbaum - "tree of jingles". :D

Sven.
by SvenW
Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:16 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: This one has defeated all my attempts
Replies: 23
Views: 8286

The German use of Mörser =/= mortar. From the 16th century on, a short cannon (rifled, muzzel loader, barrel not longer than 12 x caliber) used mainly to place explosive charges, not massiv cannon balls or Buck 'n Ball-charges. In WWI the use of the term Mörser changes. Schwere Mörser: shortened Hau...
by SvenW
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:32 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: unknown panzer photos
Replies: 4
Views: 3454

Hi!

The first one is a BT 5 or 7.

Sven.
by SvenW
Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:25 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: War movies you seldom if ever see on TV
Replies: 11
Views: 5724

What's about tv-shows/series?

I like "Czterej pancerni i pies" or in German "Vier Panzersoldaten und ein Hund", shown in the early '70s in the GDR-tv.

Sven.
by SvenW
Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:46 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: This one has defeated all my attempts
Replies: 23
Views: 8286

Today wirsch and unwirsch is simmiliar, just a local difference. Should be translated as: (adj) disgruntled, cross (Langenscheidt dictionary).

Sven.
by SvenW
Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: Here's another one for you
Replies: 10
Views: 3455

Hi Grunt!

And this kind of old-fashioned German is much harder to translate, because if you learn German today nobody will teach you such old-fashioned style which is no more used today...

What is so old-fashioned in the given text?
:shock: :shock: :shock:

SMS-Generation? :wink:

Sven.
by SvenW
Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:55 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: This one has defeated all my attempts
Replies: 23
Views: 8286

Waren wir auch keine Panzerabwehrtruppe - wenn schon Tanks bei der feindlichen Infanterie auftauchen, dann wollten "wir von der Zigeuner-Artillerie" sie gern mit berücksichtigen - "As we are not the AT unit - if tanks emerge beside enemy troops, we from the gypsy arty will take them ...
by SvenW
Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:58 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: This one has defeated all my attempts
Replies: 23
Views: 8286

Gypsy artillery because they can change their position much quickier with their mortars than normal artillery, like gypsys change their "homeplace".

Sven.
by SvenW
Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:16 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Private Military Companies
Replies: 20
Views: 5566

Landsknechtsheere - let's step back into the dark middle age.

It's hard enought to control a regular army but these PMCs???
by SvenW
Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:52 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Why Germans Can Never Escape Hitler's Shadow
Replies: 77
Views: 23947

Hi guys I very much agree with all of you who are saying that there is no sense in somehow holding modern Germany and German people today guilty for the actions of Nazi Germany 70 years ago. Which nation does not have guilt and horror in its past, from all of our slavery, empires, conquests, religi...