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Strawman argument. The article doesn't say that he is a reenactor, just an imposter with criminal intent. Calling him a reenactor is a slur against the reenactment hobby. While the hobby has its share of clueless weekend warriors, the absolute majority are serious about their depiction of fighting m...

Some weak reasoning there, ljadw. It wasn't as if 100% of the soldiers were standing out in the snow 100% of the time. To claim that 96% of the troops received winter clothing because they weren't incapaciteted by frostbite is laughable, and flies in the face of known facts abut the supply of the tr...

The party rally in Nürnberg: "Can you please tweet after der Führer's speech, bitte?" Somewhere in the USSR, 1941: "We've been marching for weeks now, and it is impossible to phone home because the Commies haven't got 3G yet." Normandy, June 6, 1944: "There's a shitload of Allied ships just of the c...

About a year ago I met a man who had dived on a German wreck off the Swedish west coast in the early 1970's. It had sunk during the invasion of Norway. He found a sealed box containing a dozen wrapped and oiled artillery Lugers in near perfect condition. As it happened, German veterans were in the h...

Looks like insignia for an employee at the railroads. Doesn't look German, though.

I have seen photos from this series on eBay and dismissed them as fakes - splinter A knockensacks - never made, the brickwork looks just like the buildings in USA European training combat villages, the soldiers are too well fed, too clean and too casual, in fact I cant see anything 'right' about th...

Nafziger's books might be what you are looking for. Hard to get and pricey, though, but more reliable than Tessin from what I understand. As for insignias, do you mean unit insignia?

I noticed it, too. Not German practice, AFAIK.

Could it be that this unknown man was of mixed nationalities, like a Swedish father and German mother and raised in Germany? That might explain why there's no known trace of him in Swedish records.

Happy to be of help! :)

Here's a shot at a translation: "NSKK [something] Wriezen, 3rd Wehrmacht course. Inspection by Generaloberst Guderian and Corps Leader Krauss. From left to right: Generaloberst Guderian, Corps Leader Krauss, a NSKK Knights Cross winner, our schoolmaster Standartenführer Edelmann and Oberstleutnant C...

Doug Nash wrote:Me, I like to take out a pencil and scribble in the margins when I find something particularly noteworthy and that's hard to do with an Ebook

Just use a magic marker!

Nice! Scale? Looks like 1/72.

I've done some research, and it has boiled down to probably be a vehicle from one of the following units: Pionier-Bataillon 9, Pionier-Bataillon 29, or Pionier-Bataillon 49. I haven't been able to find any unit signs used by them, and the sign doesn't match those of the divisions they were attached ...

Another SdKfz with a unit marking I haven't been able to identify:



Any help is greatly appreciated.