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- Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:42 pm
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Why are people still biased against Italy ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6896
Re: Why are people still biased against Italy ?
- Sat Sep 17, 2022 5:16 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Allied strategic bombing - An overlooked success?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 55947
Re: Allied strategic bombing - An overlooked success?
I doubt that there is a causal relation between the British attacks on Berlin and the German attacks on London .
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 3:40 am
- Forum: Heer
- Topic: Hitler's Panzers east by Stolfi
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4277
Hitler's Panzers east by Stolfi
What do people think of this book ?
My opinion is that it is only a lot of nonsense .Germany did not have the possibility to be east of Moscow in the autumn of 1941 .
My opinion is that it is only a lot of nonsense .Germany did not have the possibility to be east of Moscow in the autumn of 1941 .
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:16 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Why are people still biased against Italy ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6896
Why are people still biased against Italy ?
Why are people still biased against Italy claiming that the Italians were only a burden for Germany ? Is it because the only thing they know about Italy's role in WWII is what they have seen on Allo,Allo ,although there are several books showing a realistic image of Italy in WWII ( I am thinking on ...
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:37 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: D-Day , How long did the Germans have to win ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4261
Re: D-Day , How long did the Germans have to win ?
He would even have no day, not one hour, because 1 The forces of the Pas de Calais were useless in Normandy, because they were qualitatively and quantitatively weaker than the forces in Normandy who were weaker than the Allies . 2 It was logistically impossible to transport the PdC forces to Normand...
- Sat Jul 21, 2018 12:47 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Best Staff officer / general replacing Keitel in OKW...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8019
Re: Best Staff officer / general replacing Keitel in OKW...
Keitel was de facto minister of war, a function he exercised not incompetentedly.There were several officers who could replace him,but not Guderian and Manstein who were prima donnas without administrative competence .
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 12:23 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Fallschirmager casualties
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5313
Re: Fallschirmager casualties
They did not fight as FJ in Normandy but as infantry .
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Fallschirmager casualties
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5313
Re: Fallschirmager casualties
4000 men were lost at Crete,there were also losses in Norway, the Netherlands and the mainland of Greece .
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:10 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Case Red, Robert Forzcyk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5154
Re: Case Red, Robert Forzcyk
The Fall of the Third Republic is dealing with the period 1934-1940,and during this period, Shirer was NOT in France ,but in Germany . And his "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is as bad of even worse as his Fall of the Third Republic . If a French journalist living in Mexico would write ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:58 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Case Red, Robert Forzcyk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5154
Re: Case Red, Robert Forzcyk
I would advise against reading The Fall of the Third Republic:sadly enough a lot of trees were sacrified to publish this nonsense .
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:01 pm
- Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
- Topic: German Military size 1935 to 1939
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9102
Re: German Military size 1935 to 1939
Question : what do you include for Britain ? "White" troops only or also "coloured" units ?
For Germany : see : Aufrüstung der Wehrmacht on Wiki .
For Germany : see : Aufrüstung der Wehrmacht on Wiki .
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 2:47 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: new book, set for release 30th july.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3752
Re: new book, set for release 30th july.
The book is not new : it was already published in German in 2002
Maegen was born in 1922 in Eupen ,a German speaking part of Prussia that was annexed in 1919 by Belgium,in 1971 he became German .
Maegen was born in 1922 in Eupen ,a German speaking part of Prussia that was annexed in 1919 by Belgium,in 1971 he became German .
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 3:33 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: Feldgrau's Future
- Replies: 101
- Views: 450590
Re: Feldgrau's Future
That's wrong : complete freedom of opinion is impossible and would lead us to a catastrophe.
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 5:38 am
- Forum: World War I
- Topic: STRATEGIC MOVEMENT BY RAIL IN 1914.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5800
- Thu May 08, 2014 12:11 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: At the shipyard - Building a U Boat.
- Replies: 43
- Views: 27292
Re: At the shipyard - Building a U Boat.
Afaics,it took a year to finish a U Boat .