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landerstudent:

Thank you for replies in some of my posts. I have been writing a novel on world war II and I am trying very hard to keep it historically accurate.

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sgriffin383

My work is fiction based on stories that I have heard from my relatives that are American and German. Regretably, I should have started this research 20 years ago when these vets were in their sixties instead of their eighties; my work would have been non-fiction based on my family's experience on b...

Can anyone explain the wehrmacht soldier's kit or point me to any resource that gives an explanation?

It's in English.

Thank you for the advice. I have been searching the internet and had come up with those questions.

Hello all: I am not published yet, but I an finishing up a novel here in next couple of months. My work is fiction and set in WW2 in Europe. I have the following questions: 1. Do I need to get an editor? 2. Do I need to get an agent? 3. Is there still a market for this genre? 4. Do you recommend any...

Rolf: I can only imagine myself. I live in iowa in the USA and tonight it is getting to negative 20 degrees F. I was in the the military and was in the field in the winter time and it is no picnic. I couldn't imagine what the wehrmacht went through in Russia. If you have no shelter from the cold, th...

Anneile:

Not yet. I was trying to get through the holidays first. I will post results.

Shane

Anybody done any research on the day to day life of the German soldier in Russia? Did they sleep in tents, no tents, captured buildings, etc? Thanks!

For those that don't know what it is...it is a German documentary of six German soldiers that took video cameras to the Russian front and it accompanies personal commentary. I found excerpts on youtube and got interested and would like to find the documentary in its entirety.

Does anybody know where I can get a copy of Mein Kreig?

Thanks for the replies. He is my last surviving relative that has such history directly. I was late in the game discovering some of these things. I went to Germany last year and found out that all of my veteran relatives had already died. I got some stories, but not first hand accounts. Thank you to...

I am going to send a questionaire to my great uncle who fought for Germany in WW2. He lives in Canada. I was going to go see him last summer but he did not want guests. I have talked to him on the phone and he seems receptive. What kind of questions do you ask? And more importantly, how do ypu get h...

What a great site!!! Being an American and serving my country in battle, in the Gulf war and in Iraq 2004-2005, I grew up with a greatgrandfather who fought for germany in WWI and an American grandfather who fought in WWII. I idolized both armies as a child. Thank you for the replies!!

Thanks for the links! What a great resource!