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Hi ! Jocks post and Greetings prompt me to send sincere greetings also to all old friends. Hope you are all well and comfortable. I am "soso". Hearing and eyesight are failing, but general health and spirits are just fine, Thank you. Milan

That’s just what I am talking about – how we can change democracy for the better. More exactly – how we can change the sham democracy that we keep sprouting on about into a real rule by the people. My vision of a Constitution still retains all the essential hallmarks of the present democratic system...

Phylo, my friend, University education gave you a lot of knowledge about the way things are and how they came to be the way they are. I am straining my High school brain with the imagining of What Should Be and speculating about the ways how it could be brought about. Observations about the way Elec...

Before someone with the authority to do it pulls the plug on this de-railed discussion I would like to contribute my bit. I also spend a lot of my thinking time on the level from which Paulus II speaks, but – sadly – I normally lack the confidence needed to take a bite out of such a big apple. These...

Milan, I did not realize you were "one of the bad guys too" :D :up: There are not many left over, and it's getting lonseome in the ranks. Oh well. HN[/quote] Haen, I am surprised that you are surprised. My webpage tells all about my service as W-SS Pionier. If you didn't have time before, ...

Thank you for the "thumbs-up". I will be 83 next April - if I survive 'till then. After the initial training from March till the end of August '43 in Dresden and training area of Beneshau, I was posted to the SS-Polizei Division. We have then spent one year in Greece and from there we were...

I may as well add my name to the list of "rare" AB fellows. I still have my tattoo on the underside of my left arm. We were tested for bloodgroup and immediately tattooed on the morning after our arrival by train from Slovakia in the Dresden recruit training barracks . This was done even b...

That was quick, Terje, I am no authority, but the way i understand the term, the image I have in mind is that of a unit being lead by its commander down a street of a town in which it intends to spend some time, sometimes longer other times just overnight, and according to the estimated capacity of ...

Dear Terje, I can only tell you about a handful of episodes in which I was personally involved. Unfortunately (or rather - and most definitely - fortunately) none of these were played out in Russia proper. My service with the Waffen SS began much too late for that. Some of my recollections with bear...

Mr. Árbocz, It pleases me to know that you – and, believe me, there are many more like you and I, who believe that a better “New World” won’t just come down from the sky, but that we will have to bring about the appropriate changes to our human affairs ourselves. About 130 years ago an American poli...

OK, Brooke, I'll take a crack at the translation myself: The german soldier fell on the field of battle, The german woman at home in bed. The man fell for the Fatherland, The woman for a yankee cigarette The other item needs a brief introduction: The word Bonzen in German usage is the plural form of...

I understand, Brooke, and the more I think of it, the more I am beginning to regret having raised this subject on this particular forum. Feldgrau members are concentrating on the gathering of all kinds of information relating to wars (mainly WW2) which are already part of history and they are doing ...

Fair enough, That is one way to pass over my suggestion. But I still feel that while we think it quite O.K. for a fireman to take an active interest in fire prevention methods and for a doctor to advocate and promote healthy lifestyle, we should accept as quite legitimate a soldiers interest in peac...

In 1947 when I was released from the american PoW processing lager in Dachau as I was about to begin my train journey to Steiermark I saw in the Munich railway station toilet, among other "poetry", two unforgettable comments on the times. Today, 59 years later, although my aquaintnance wit...

Sorry, fabweb, for not reacting earlier, but I drift into Unit histories only now and then. I was a Prisoner of the Russians for six months in 1945. You can read my Story on http://milanlorman.bigpondhosting.com/index.html You may find my experiences as a PoW a bit different from the usual fare, but...