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The last photos of Steiner show a ribbon bar with nine ribbons. The awards listed do not total nine. Here is what I have - who can help me? EKII 1914 with 1939 Spange Ostfront Ehrenkreuz Anschluss Sudetenland mit Prager Burg Slovakia - Siegreichen Kriegskreuz Finland - Freedom Cross with device Unkn...

I don't think Ehler was being literal when he said "see you in Valhalla." He was a Christian, but I don't think he was thinking Christian thoughts when as he aimed his plane at the bomber. He was speaking as a warrior who knew the end was near, a German Kamikaze!

Gerst

The 73rd Infantry Division was part of the XLIV (54) Infantry Corps. They attacked at the Perekop 24 September 1941. It was a very hard battle and the 73rd lost many men - 1,500 in the initial assault. Eventually, the XXX Army Corps with two divisions had to be brought in. The final breakthrough int...

My father was with the German XXX Armeekorps. I have a great deal of information. What units and actions are you interested in?

Gerst

This unit was in reserve during the Polish campaign and saw limited, if any, action in France in 1940. The division was transported to Romania in March, 1941 and participated in the campaign against Jugoslavia. My uncle was a sergeant with the 186th Infantry Regiment on June 22, 1940 and sent my fat...

[Crimean partisans were largely countered by Romanian troops, not Germans, and they were still too weak in April 1944 to prevent the Germans and Romanians withdrawing into the Sevastopol perimeter successfully. Soviet partisan successes are much over-hyped.] In my research of the capture of the Crim...

Whenever I discuss WW II, I think of myself as a German, since I was born there in 1944 and my father and his brothers all served. My mother had only sisters. They served as teachers and one worked for Admiral Doenitz. From 1951 to 1956 "we" means Canadians. After that, "we" beca...

On June 17, 1940 my uncle Fritz sent my father a postcard from Versailles. Father was with the XXX Armeekorps in Alsace-Lorraine.

Onkel Fritz had been with the Grossdeutschland Regiment. What is the Feldpost Number 6? Where was it in June, 1940?

Arnim Gerstenmeier

The greatest victory of German arms was the capture of the Crimea. In July 1942, we could have deployed the 11th Army into southern Russia and kicked some real Bolshevik "Arsch!" Too bad we had an Austrian corporal in charge of our army! So much for "equal opportunity."

Gerst

Please allow me to interject a bit of 1st hand information here. Clearly, the allies could have captured or obliterated Dunkirk, but they did neither. They simply chose to isolate the town and its "garrison." They did launch a number of attempts to capture various positions, but the "...

During the month of September, the German 11th Army attacked the salient which had been created by the Russian 2nd Strike Army in August, 1942. The main German attack seems to have been launched on September 21, but there were other attacks as well. For example, elements of the 12th Panzer Division ...

The nice thing about discussing "what ifs" is that nobody can be proven wrong.

Gerst

My father was at Dunkirk for the duration. He earned an Iron Cross there. German gunners knocked down all types of Alllied aircraft, incuding B-17 bombers on the way to Germany. They held off Brits, Canadians, Czechs and French forces. Many French civilians even elected to stay in the "poche.&q...

The "Red Stain" observation is correct. Nobody in the "west" had any balls in the 1930's and the only political groups which were organized on an international scale were the Communists. But look at the positive side - Europe would have been spared the infusion of the degenerate ...

Do you have any information on the attack of the 12th Panzer Division and 24th Infantry Division towards Gaitolovo of September 10?

Two Tigers were involved - von Heimendahl group?

Gerst