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- Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:34 am
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: collapse of the 1918 offensive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5585
Re: collapse of the 1918 offensive
This is pretty scary. The Germans have run out of manpower sources, and are prepared to send Germany's 18-year olds into combat. Wouldn't a rational government look for an endgame at this point? It looks like they would rather destroy Germany's future than make peace.
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:25 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Poles passage to Britain
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17577
Re:
One of my Polish/Australian friends was born in Tanzania after his parents made their way south from Poland. He has no idea how/why etc. His parents never spoke about anything relevant. Any clues anyone, of how a Pole could find himself in Tanzania in 1940? - Hans Too many of the Poles who made the...
- Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:56 pm
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: The Schlieffen Plan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8313
Re: The Schlieffen Plan
"The hostile front is not the aim of the principal attack. It is not against that point that the troops should be massed and the reserves disposed; the essential thing is to crush the flanks. The wings ought not to be sought at the advanced flank points of the front, but along the entire depth ...
- Fri May 18, 2012 11:51 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Percentage of Berlin that was destroyed?...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12541
Re: Percentage of Berlin that was destroyed?...
Looks like that at around 60-70% destroyed there is no more return on bombs dropped. As they say, at that point you are just rearranging the rubble.
- Fri May 18, 2012 11:48 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Books by Franz Kurowski
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19914
Re: Books by Franz Kurowski
The AMPS tank modeling site reviews his book on the Afrika Korps (FK is said to have served in North Africa and other Mediterranean areas) as "like an extended high school report."
- Fri May 18, 2012 11:47 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Books by Franz Kurowski
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19914
Re: Books by Franz Kurowski
The German Wikipedia entry on FK is mostly about factual errors (?) in his polemical books on the Dresden raids. He is identified as a revisionist in the disapproving sense of the word.
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:28 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Total of german prisioneers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4497
Re: Total of german prisioneers
The Wikipedia article "German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union" seems pretty good.
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:11 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Mission 101
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4987
Wingate? Re: Mission 101
Wasn't the Ethiopian guerilla movement run by Orde Wingate? That phase of his activities is much less written about than the Burma Chindits, unfortunately.
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:49 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12104
Re: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
Suprisingly, or perhaps not, the Russian experience with terminology is not without interest. Firstly, they took the western European term "partisan" and used it as far back as 1812 to describe cavalry units conducting deep penetration raids and harrassments of the retreating French, which...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:14 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Jewish SOE Naval Unit Led By Brits...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10259
Re: Jewish SOE Naval Unit Led By Brits...
Not exactly a rare skill in SOE or in assorted military units in the theatre. No,but coupled with language skills and a willingness to please it might have been.It was a very rough neighborhood as evidenced by their fate...a body believed to be that of Palmer was washed ashore showing evidence of m...
- Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:02 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: British private armies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5097
Re: British private armies - Chindits
A real good case study of Private Armies might be the Chindits in Burma. The size was substantial compared to the amount of forces in theater - a brigade in 1943 and a division in 1944, plus the air support. There was something behind the term "Private" for the Chindits, as the commander, ...
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:39 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Explosive New Book about Kursk Coming out in May
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31228
Re: Explosive New Book about Kursk Coming out in May
http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm
From over five years ago, runs through several "Kursk myths" and says what was actually going on. Interestingly, also rebuts Nipes' claim that XIV Panzer Corps could have won a victory for the Germans had not Hitler's will (supposedly) failed.
From over five years ago, runs through several "Kursk myths" and says what was actually going on. Interestingly, also rebuts Nipes' claim that XIV Panzer Corps could have won a victory for the Germans had not Hitler's will (supposedly) failed.
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:13 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: What were Hitler's plans for after the war?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 27345
back to the original question Re: What were Hitler's plans
From HITLER AND STALIN, I recall that Hitler's personal expectation for after the war was to lay down and die. He felt his family had a history of early deaths, and it suited his sense of historical drama that he would lead the struggle to create the super-Germany and then--while the glory was still...
- Sat May 21, 2011 3:30 pm
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: I & II / 361 Afrika Regiment
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6542
Re: I & II / 361 Afrika Regiment - Swiss?
On what legal basis could the German government draft a Swiss national into the Wehrmacht?
- Thu May 05, 2011 6:45 pm
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Werner Poetschke at Stoumont December 19, 1944
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14543
Re: Werner Poetschke at Stoumont December 19, 1944
Thank you for the information regarding Darago's and Seaman's well-deserved DSCs.
But it begs the question, what was the 90mm battery doing at this time? With firepower like that, why were they sending out artillerymen as bazooka teams on near-suicidal missions?
But it begs the question, what was the 90mm battery doing at this time? With firepower like that, why were they sending out artillerymen as bazooka teams on near-suicidal missions?