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by Athanaric
Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:26 pm
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

Hitler have promised Antonescu romanian soldiers will receive military equipment when they take the fighting positions nord of Stalingrad (the Don Bend) and south of Stalingrad (Kalmuk steppe). They received nothing: not anti-tank artilery, no wire barbed web constructed, no mined fields, no antita...
by Athanaric
Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:47 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

Hi Athanarthic - If you could provide a translation for this letter it would be most appreciated. I'm sure there are a number of forum members who would like to read it. Best regards, George This is a a part of the translation: Mister Fieldmarshall, I have been informed and I am in deeply sad due t...
by Athanaric
Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:21 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

The Romanian units seemed to be not well enough equiped. Out-dated equipment and all created some problems and overall I think in some ways the Romanians caused some of the downfalls in some battles. Hitler have promised Antonescu romanian soldiers will receive military equipment when they take the...
by Athanaric
Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:19 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

The Romanian units seemed to be not well enough equiped. Out-dated equipment and all created some problems and overall I think in some ways the Romanians caused some of the downfalls in some battles. Hitler have promised Antonescu romanian soldiers will receive military equipment when they take the...
by Athanaric
Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:10 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

Below is a letter sent by Marshall antonescu to von Manstein in 9-dec-1942 Are many answers related to romanian-german relationship during batlle from the Don Band and Kalmuk steppe. If you can not find somebody to translate it, may be I'll do! Domnule Feldmaresal, Am luat cunostinta cu adanca mahni...
by Athanaric
Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:25 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Romanians
Replies: 32
Views: 32759

panzermahn, There are some documents in romanian language, sponsored by Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului, Colectia "Documente": "Rezistenta anticomunista din Maramures. Gruparea Popsa, 1948-1949", by Camelia Ivan Duica, 2005; "Jurnalul unui partizan: Vasil...
by Athanaric
Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:07 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Romanians
Replies: 32
Views: 32759

Hi MikeWindheuser, Petre Dumitrescu, the commander of the 3rd Roumanian Army at the Don Bend wrote in 1945:"...At the Don Bend 4 soviet armies with 26-28 divisions of rifles, 4 infantry brigades, 4 cavalry divisions, 17 armour brigades and 2 aerian corps attaked 5 roumanian divisions...". ...
by Athanaric
Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:40 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Rumanian Stalingrad Survivors?
Replies: 29
Views: 21689

hi the.warlord1944, I recommend you read: "Die Kampfe der Wehrmacht in Rumanien 1944" by Lt-Col. Klaus Schonherr, Deutsche Originalausgabe in: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweitte Weltkrieg, Band 8 Deutsche Verlag-Anstalt, Munchen. [romanian: Luptele Wehrmachtului in Romania 1944, Editura Mi...