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by Nebelwerfer
Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:37 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Battlefield grave
Replies: 4
Views: 2727

Dear der Gespenst:

Chocolate cake ! from Boston ! at that ! LOL

Nebelwerfer
by Nebelwerfer
Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:04 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?
Replies: 48
Views: 21170

Dear Ron Klages, Good point that most wars are about broader issues than a single natural resource. However, some wars are very focused on specific natural resources. However, there have been numerous wars over fertile soil, access to a single river or seaport, control of a single mountain pass, and...
by Nebelwerfer
Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:19 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?
Replies: 48
Views: 21170

Dear Ron Klages, An "Oil War" is a war or major campaign in which the primary objective is the control or securing of oil resources in the ground (usually with oil refining capacity already installed.) An example of a war in which the major objective was oil is the First Gulf War (1991.) S...
by Nebelwerfer
Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:35 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?
Replies: 48
Views: 21170

Excellent discussion, gentlemen.

As a result, I think the oil objective has been put into context. That is, it was a consideration, but it is a stretch to term any of these campaigns as "oil wars".
by Nebelwerfer
Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:19 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?
Replies: 48
Views: 21170

Dear Grunt, Thanks for your reply. Regarding your point on North Africa, would you agree that the Afrikakorps' immediate objective was to control Egypt and thereby achieve the following strategic objectives: a) the Suez canal (probably the primariy strategic objective) AND, not OR b) the Mideast oil...
by Nebelwerfer
Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:22 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?
Replies: 48
Views: 21170

How Much of WW2 Was an Oil War?

Was the North Africa campaign in the end an oil war?

Was the thrust through southern Russia to the Caspian Sea an oil war?

How much of Japan's expansionism in Southeast Asia an oil war?

"Plus cela change, plus c'est la meme chose."
by Nebelwerfer
Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:19 pm
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: What do you collect?
Replies: 159
Views: 177609

I have a German mother's medal in bronze. This medal, which is very graceful (it looks like an elongated iron cross and has a swastika in the center) and is inlaid in white and blue enamel. I understand the system for awarding this medal to women depended on how many children they had: > 2 children ...
by Nebelwerfer
Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:10 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: some pics of german tanks
Replies: 9
Views: 6572

Lieber Hell, Excellent photos and sites! It must be a lifetime thrill down to your bones to see that Panther or Jadpanther roar by. From your third link, it appears that the vehicles driving (Museumsnacht) occurred in early September of 2003. By all means, if you (or anyone else) can supply dates fo...
by Nebelwerfer
Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:10 am
Forum: Photographs
Topic: some pics of german tanks
Replies: 9
Views: 6572

Arne (and others!), Apparently the vehicles are being driven in the Koblenz photos? Perhaps they do it in Koblenz (and I think also in Saumur, France), but not in Muenster. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it, since I am planning a trip this summer and would like to coincide in time and place ...
by Nebelwerfer
Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:02 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: How Much of WW2 was an Oil War ?
Replies: 0
Views: 724

How Much of WW2 was an Oil War ?

Was the North Africa campaign in the end an oil war?

Was the thrust through southern Russia to the Caspian Sea an oil war?

"Plus cela change, plus c'est la meme chose."
by Nebelwerfer
Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:51 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: German Military Music
Replies: 52
Views: 20124

OK, at the end of the day, my favorite, as originator of this thread, is: Koenigraetzer Marsch (I believe it is only instrumental) Here is another good one; see if you can identify it from the first few words of one of the verses (hint: stirring and rhythmic marching song par excellence): Soldat Kam...
by Nebelwerfer
Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:39 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: some pics of german tanks
Replies: 9
Views: 6572

Are there any special dates when the Panzermuseum Muenster gets the vehicles out and rolls them around?

I can't figure this question out from their otherwise good web site.
by Nebelwerfer
Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:26 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: What if SA had Prevailed?
Replies: 12
Views: 2911

Great discussion! What do members think on this point: With the SA in as influential a position as the SS was in 1939, would war have been less likely? I think it would have been less likely (because I suspect that the SA would have been more concered with a domestic agenda of social welfare/ employ...
by Nebelwerfer
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:59 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Was this the furthest east German forces advanced?
Replies: 9
Views: 6497

Was this the furthest east German forces advanced?

A veteran told me he was a young lieutenant with Von Kleist's staff when this commander reached the Caspian Sea near oil-rich Baku. The veteran also said that a Kriegsmarine unit rolled up in their pristine blue trucks carrying boats that were to be used to cross the Caspian and make contact with fr...
by Nebelwerfer
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:50 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: What if SA had Prevailed?
Replies: 12
Views: 2911

Dear derGespent and Herr Doktor, Let me see if I follow your points, in terms of what is cause and what is effect: Are you saying that, the reason (cause) that the SA was suppressed was that its fundamentally socialist/labor tendencies were contrary to the (capitalist/conservative) direction the par...