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I heard that von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") was the only ever recipant of the Red Eagle Order with swords because for technical reason he didnt qualify for a Pour le Merite with Oakleafs. I could not be certain right now, but I think those technical reasons was that he was not royalty, ...

I heard that von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") was the only ever recipant of the Red Eagle Order with swords because for technical reason he didnt qualify for a Pour le Merite with Oakleafs.

Hi, Don't think there would be too many. I read a book by Hans Massaquoi some years ago called Destined to Witness. His father was an African diplomat (from Liberia, I think) and his mother was a German nurse. He never served in the Wehrmacht and was denied entry into the Hitler Youth. It's an inte...

Rudi Tuzla wrote:Blaskowitz was one of the few General officers to become known for his opposition to the Final Solution.

I heard that him protesting against Hans Frank's and the way he handled Poland was the reason that he never became a field marshal.

heinz kling wrote:So his family comes before the people that he cared so much as to plot the assaination of the nation's elected leadership and his fellow generals?

How was Hitler an elected leader in 1944?

Did they only then see the Nazi movement for the evil that it was or did they just want to be on the right side in the event Germany lost the war? It could have been even easier. I think that at that time many officers -pro Nazi/Democracy or not - were fully aware that contuing the war could lead t...

Didnt one of his brothers got killed on day 1 of WWII?

And when was a traitor who's out to assasinate his nation's elected leadership in its darkest hour an honourable man? Hitler was an elected leader? I never heard that he ever renewed his power through elections after 33. He never respected the weimar constitution and didnt prevent any harm to the g...

Enrico Mölders wrote:Hi Piett,

why do you think Lewinski is coming from Lewi ?
The Lewinskis where a Prussian family wich lived and served for Prussia and later the German Empire since generations.

I didnt say that I think that I wrote that I read that in the book I mentioned.

The question is did Rommel launch his ill prepared offensives with an underpowered army really because he didnt see the grand picture, didnt understand operating art and logistics or did he do that just because of personal ambition. In some docu there was an officer saying that Rommel was jumping up...

In his book "Die Wehrmacht - Feindbilder Vernichtungskrieg Legenden" Wolfram Witte writes that Manstein himself (his original name was Lewinski) had a jewish ancestor named Lewi and that maybe that was a reason for his protest against the expulsion of jews from the Wehrmacht but it's not t...

Max "The Black Ulan" Schmeling became the world heavyweight champ in 1930 when he was declared DQ winner against a low punching Jack Sharkey. He defended the title once before losing it to Sharkey in one of the biggest robberies in boxing history. He is the only fighter ever to have beaten...

Who decided to make the 12 generals field marshalls in july 1940? Was it only Hitler who had the final decision? What was the procedure like? Well, and what about Goering's rank of Reichsmarschall? I have never heard of something like that other than in Goering's case. A specially created rank just ...

Germany comes from "Germania". It is female but it's not a "german" word. It's of latin origin.