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Hi Guys, "Where is that book going ???' Frankly, at the moment I don't know yet either. It has been finished for some time, and short of a few last minute corrections is ready for the press. My problem is "keeping the family happy". Some of them are happy with it, others seem to be sc...

My book "Chameleon" is finished and ready to go to the publisher. Problem: I need about a dozen pictures of the 34th SS (Landstorm Nederland) from marching soldiers, to battle pictures in and around Arnhem. There are hundreds on the web; the problem is "who owns them" ? I could j...

Timo wrote:

eurasiacan wrote:they were more likely to get shot as prisoners than with the regular Army...

Facts? This assumption is based on which statistics?

Russians soldiers had a simple solution. Bird on chest, take prisoner; Bird on sleeve, KILL. HN.

John Howard's advice is very good, however, I believe that most veterans are at the stage in their lives where they are not looking to make new friends. You are also more likely to find Estonian and Latvian W-SS vets living in your area. I do know a number of W-SS veterans and the subject of re-ena...

Good luck ! You will need it. German Veterans in the U.S., and Canada, especially former Waffen SS soldiers may need to "lay low" . With the 60th anniversay of D Day coming up, the "We were sóóó good, and they were sóóó bad", is being revived again. Many of us have lived here som...

If you are waiting for a judgement against Russia, or for that matter any of the Allied, you will have a very long wait ahead of you. 8) Remember history is written by the Victors. They always were the "good"guys, while the enemy always is the "bad" one. :( Let's hope some day we...

Hello Dale! Just a recommendation. If your are seriously interested in the Wehrmacht don´t do such rank equivalent tables as the tasks and positions within the companies were extremely different!!! Learn the german ranks and which tasks they had in their formations.... otherwise you will get lost i...

As a veteran of the W.SS., I would NOT like to have my funeral attented bij reenactors in any full uniform. I have a couple of reenactor friends, who could come, but NOT in their make belief get-up. IF there were any other vets around, they could come in their uniforms, because they earned it. I am ...

Some reason "why" : To join "liberators" as from communism or so. To join an ideology that you think will give your people a better life. To join the "fight against barbarians" and the "Red hordes". To join those who went before you for religious reasons. To j...

Sadly enough , you are right. but history has been written by the victors, as: WE GOOD - YOU BAD". Perhaps in an other hundred years or so, some historian will look back and decipher the falshoods, and people will poshumously still give some respect to those who sacrificed their lives for their...

Did anyone else notice how we got off the subject again and again ? May an old man, with tired eyes give some advise ? Stop your personal bickering, stick close to the facts, and keep it short. I lost track between the 'he said, that she said, that he said that he said' and the endless quotes. Perha...

Betz, I own some TK DIV tags, so I'd be interested in seeing the last two tags on your list. These SS tags are HEAVILY faked, although, the vast majority are easily spotted. How did you obtain them? Did you dig them yourself or did you purchase them from someone else? Post the tags here on the foru...

A formal letter to the Netherlands Minister of Justice: "Geeft met verschuldigde eerbied te kennen . . . . enz." , may set wheels in motion, where lower clerks may not be inclined to go through the trouble of trying to help you. Archives are dusty, confusing, and not as nice as sitting beh...

that's what i was saying, but wasn't really sure...thanx. do you have any idea, where to get such rooster books? Sadly a lot of unit papers were destroyed (burned) before capitulating. Only the 'backup info" a Reg.HQ or so may have been kept . I was told long ago that he D.R.K. (German Red cro...

Hi Ritter, I bought recently a SS-soldbuch from this exact unit.Do you know from which division this unit is from?The soldbuch is from an Dutch SS-man in the beginning of 1945.I thought it was from the SS-division Nederland or Wiking? Thx Patrick So that's where my soldbuch may have ended up too; (...