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Herbert Elsner received the DKiG on 31.01.1944 as an Oberfeldwebel in II./Pz.Rgt. 23
Source; Patzwall & Scherzer (2001)


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Krollspell

Hello Alexander, Here's a short bio on the military career of Johannes Zuckertort (which you probably already are familiar with but then again...)... * 29. April 1886, Berlin † 7. März 1969, (DDR) Johannes Zuckertort trat nach seiner Kadettenausbildung am 1. April 1905 mit dem Charakter als Fähnrich...

Jason, My sincere thanks for your great achievement in creating and maintaining this wonderfully informative and entertaining world called Feldgrau! I fully understand the amount of work you have put in over all these years to keep Feldgrau up and running and although I haven't been that actice for ...

Famed Tiger commander and Eichenlaubträger Oberleutnant d.R. Otto Carius has passed away today at age 92.

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Krollspell

This is General der Flieger Kurt Flugbeil (thanks to Andrey over at AHF). His rank insignia on this photograph is gold embraided and shows a General's rank. Here's a short bio...

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Per ... gbeilK.htm


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Krollspell

Sad to hear that Herr Doktor Neyenhuis has passed away...

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Krollspell

Very sad news indeed. He was very helpful and contributed a lot to Feldgrau in general but also to me in several of my first posts here some nine years ago. A Gentleman...

My condolences to his family.


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Christian S.

A great actor indeed! I first saw him in "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) when he played Willi Bittrich against all the alllied movie stars.
He played many memorable roles in so many films (other than Hauptmann Stransky, that is!)...

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Krollspell

"Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero’s welcome in the all but unrecognizable Japan of 1974, died Thursday at a Tokyo hospital, the Japanese ...

Hello again, John! Your mystery General have now been identified (thanks to Dieter Zinker over at AHF). He was the Austrian General der Infanterie Alfred Krauss (1862-1938), decorated by Imperial Germany with the Pour le Mérite on November 12, 1917 for leading the k.u.k. 1. Korps of the Austro-Hunga...

Gentlemen,

From the funeral of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in 1964...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXXT4PO7v_c


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Krollspell

Hello John! The older General that stands beside Hitler is not Paul von Hindenburg! Apart from the fact that your elderly General bear no similarity to von Hindenburg, the absence of several decorations tell us that it's not him. Among von Hindenburg's many awards that he always wore were the Grossk...

Servus Helmut, The main difference between the DK in Gold and the DK in Silber was that the Gold version basically were awarded for combat performance, or for that matter staff duties at the front lines. The same reasons as for the EK and the RK, ranking in between these. The German Cross in Silver ...

Hello Kurt, I haven't got much (at all) on the subject, but the commanding officers for SS-Divisions-Nachschub-Abteilung 5 during the war were named Eggersdorf (1942), Wolfsreder (1943) and Honsell (1944-1945). Source: "European Volunteers - 5 SS Panzer Division Wiking", by Peter Strasser (1988). Re...

Hello Apollo! This is what I have on the Panzerregiment's II Abteilung in early 1943 (February/early March)... Stellenbesetzung II. Abteilung: Kmd. Major Thiede Adj. Leutnant von Mutius Nachr.Off. Oberleutnant Risch 5. Kompanie Oberleutnant Klemz 6. Kompanie Hauptmann von Gottberg 7. Kompanie Oberle...