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This might be of interest for you...will be published by Schiffer

Is there a military history bookstore in Ottawa/ Canada? I will be there on a business trip in a few month.

It seems, that a few old titles are being republished, including Milius' SS-FschJgBtl 500 and a few by Tieke. See:

http://buecherkabinett.com/Books/DE_Books_New_Set.asp

Go to 1918 - 1945 "Neu in dieser Rubrik" and scroll down....

I think you need to give the context...but nevertheless I ill give it a try: First there are few and shy attempts, which the still wary storm of artillery fire tears apart again. Then they are closing the ranks (context: does he mean soldiers? - if not, perhaps assembling may also be correct..?) , c...

Rohrvorholer means (gun) recuperator. It works like the recoil mechanism, just in the opposite direction - moving the gun forward after the recoil mechanism stopped it in the rearward position after firing.

The song hints at Jan Phillip Reemstsma, the son of the cigarette king. He was the initiator of the exhibition: Die Verbrechen der Wehrmacht (crimes of the Wehrmacht) in 1995. German Wikipedia has an article about him:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Philipp_Reemtsma

Hafthohlladung (lit.: sticky hollow charge)[/b]

The original text goes (p.210):
"Die SCHWEINEREI beginnt schon damit, daß die Sturmgeschütze...."

"Schweinerei" better translates as "mess" is this context; "goat screw" is way overboard...

sab man = sah man (one saw...)
kugel = Kugel (round)
sofertigem = sofortigem (immediate... death)
schickenl = Schicksal (fate)
Grost= Trost (comfort, consolation)

other mistakes:
ersteter = erster (first)
Kompaniestraf = Kompanie traf
letsten = letzten (last)

Fähnrich is an officer candidate aquivalent to Feldwebel. Fahnenjunker is an officer candiate aquivalent to Unteroffizier. Today there is even the rank Oberfähnrich, aquivalent to Hauptfeldwebel (as rank not function). A silver stripe was (and still is) added to the rank insignia indicating the cand...

What are the following German Staff positions: Chef der Heeresrüstung = chief (head, director) of army armament Allgemeines Heeresamt = general army office (department) Chef Heeres-Waffenamt = chief army weapons department Oberbefehlshaber des Ersatzheeres = CinC of replacement army Stellv. Der Obe...

Kübler certainly wasn't an officer embosomed by his (Gebirgs)jäger.

Do you know http://dict.leo.org/ ?
It's a quite good english - german (and vice versa) online translator - for words, not sentences.

On October 7th 1938 Ostubaf Brehm filed a complaint to Hitler’s Deputy. In this complaint he maintained that the chairmen of the former SDP, Henlein and Frank fled to the Altreich (“old empire“=Germany) during the decisive days in 1938. Frank again took on the accusations by Brehm and demanded a cla...

What about this one (albeit it's a female author )

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Hitlers-Fo ... F8&s=books

The latest book (in German) on Paulus will be published this year:

http://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/cgi-bi ... rch=paulus