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Good morning all, This weekend, Jan 31, 2009, there will be a Battle of the Bulge weekend near Harrisburg, PA. There will be a wreath laying ceremony at the National Cemetary Friday evening. Saturdays events are a battle reenactment as well as open barracks displays showing life of both German and a...

Another good book is on written by James Lucas titled "Das Reich, Military Role of the 2nd SS". This is a whole history but does give a good history at Normandy.

Towards the end of the war were the Polizei battalions absorbed by regular Heer/SS units?

It's amazing the good condition they are in. Some years ago I got to see the bunkers on Sicily, pretty much just concrete boxes anymore. Makes you wonder how many others are buried and forgotten by time.

In comparison to what the United States put out by means of vehicles.

To this day, it still amazes me how much the army relied on horses.

Was the average German soldier punished for committing war crimes? I should say if caught or prosecuted. Since officers were hanged or imprisoned, did sargeants etc face the same thing?

Some of what happened is the Allies supplied partisans knowing that the Germans would seek terrible retribution on the population. A good example is the Heydrich assassination. Another is supplying Tito's forces in Yugoslavia.

Recently saw this movie and thought it wasn't terrible. It was obviously slanted to the filmmakers view on issues, but it eas a very good show just the same. The movie captured the desperation of the German army in the closing days of the Italian campaign as well as the war. The movie did hold very ...

An interesting book was written by a man named Sonke Neitzel titled Tapping Hitler's Generals. It contains recent(5years or so) declassified transcripts of conversations by POW German Officers, typically colonel and above. I've gathered that the Wehrmacht was not as innocent as spme have been lead t...

Thanks guys, this is a real help.

Who can tell me about the Reichsbank? I have a 20 mark note from 1914. Beautiful watermarks and all. Did the bank continue to exist during the 30s?

Looking for good references about the Volkssturm. Most I have seen has just been very small points. Thanks.