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I read through this discussion this evening and decided that I had to add a comment or two. As a Canadian, I have enormous respect for the USA, its system of government and its armed forces. The war in Iraq, far from going badly, seems to me to be making slow but steady progress. I am not an expert,...

[quote="behblc"]This may have been asked on previous forum ? What do users think of Hitler as a Military Commander? What do you think his good points were , what were his bad points ? Did his direction of the war lead to Germanys defeat ? I am not certain such a question can be really answ...

I just returned from a visit to Berlin where I had some meetings with German officials. Further to the discussion of military history in Germany, I was told during one meeting that the very first post-1945 chair in military strategy at a German university is to be established at a Bundeswehr facilit...

This is a very interesting issue, because everyone faces an issue that they simply cannot confront. When I was a teenager and only beginning to acquire a body of knowledge in history, I asked the mother of a very good friend what she knew about the camps. She had grown up in Germany during the war. ...

When I first started using the internet about seven years ago, I came across the website of a woman who lived in Canada, but who had grown up in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s. She wrote a variety of history essays -- mostly about German, especially royal, history. But she also wrote three or four es...

There are many very good WW2-related museums to visit and not all are military collections. The city museum in Warsaw's old town square really documents the brutality of the German occupation. And, of course, there is Auschwitz/Birkenau -- the Holocaust is not the most important aspect of the war, b...

It is interesting that 137 years after Hannover was annexed by Prussia, the bitterness is still present. It is the same, I suppose, for those who decide not to honour those buried at Invaliden. Still though I think Prussia gets a bad rap in history. It was no more aggressive than France. However, it...

I might be completely misinformed, but was Manstein not convicted of war crimes and served time. I seem to recall reading somewhere that he supported the savage treatment of local people in the Barbarossa campaign, and witnessed Jews being dragged behind vehicles. If true, his humane and decent trea...

I am curious to know if German officers collected pensions from the Federal Republic for service in the Second World War? And, did those pensions reflect the rank they held during the war (i.e., Field Marshals collecting a much larger pension than a mere Captain? )

What if questions are often useful learning tools, and you's is a case in point. I do not think that the assassination of Hitler would have changed very much. The Allies did not see the problem as only a Nazi one -- they viewed the Nazi problem as an off-shoot of Prussian militarism. Hence, British ...

Thank you for your comment. I did not know that Heydrich was buried there, but it fits with the importance the German military (even the SS) once placed on the site. I did know that Todt is somewhere, and I saw Udet's grave, as I stated earlier. Surprisingly it was covered with fresh flowers -- in t...

Most Germans today continue to use traditional German names for cities in Eastern Europe. When you drive outside of Berlin there are raod signs for Breslau not Wroclaw. But the form is often quite irregular. Lviv/Lwow/Lvov is sometimes Lemberg, Chernivsti is most often Tchernowitz, and Bratislava is...

One of the subjects that many of the forum's participants touch upon is how difficult a time modern Germany has with its own military history. That is somewhat understandable, particularly when every branch of the armed forces committed atrocities, and in numbers that are simply staggering. (So did ...

Does anyone know of any books/articles that focus on the German occupation of Lemberg (Lviv - Ukraine) after 22 June 1941. I know of the study on Ukraine under National Socialism written by Volodymyr Kosyk. Any others?