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Ok, I admit Vatutin's "brutality" was often a must. He had to submit and percecute Stalin's orders e.a. in the destruction of the Mobile Group Popov Feb. 1943. The bottom line is that both Mr. Hitler and Tavarish Stalin were conducting not a "normal war", but a war of destruction...

I'm not that sad, so please let me know Your opinions! I would appreciate opinions about desicion making between Stalin and the senior generals. Voroshlilov and Budjonney formally still in the leading-echelons (Politbyroo), but actually without influence.? :down: Timoshenko downwords :down: Rising o...

After 22.6.41 Stalin didn't trust anybody, anyone, anywhere. Did he earlier, not much! He was totally incompetent for several days after Hitler's attack, and after recovering this shock, his paranoia went worse and worse. I ask: How is it possible that the world had two dictators with severe obsessi...

No, if I recall it precisely!
Still, asking is always good.
With best
Juha

This is great, David.
Where do you get this info?
Juha

Asking a silly question:
Which Front were these Armies under and who was the CiC of the Front?
Greets
Juha

Hello, Raúl!

tigre wrote:Target knocked out: A destroyed Light tank T-26.

Did You notice that this T-26 was a commanders tank.
See the ruins of the antennae circling the turret!
Normal T-26 hadn't got radios at all.
Greets
Juha

I found an interesting thread from: http://www.feldgrau.com/interview6.html Good discription of training and dicipline in the German elite division by Rudolph Salvermoser, a Großdeutschland Veteran. Here's a section of it, please be patient and read, all of you watching this topic! "You Don't T...

Oberleutnant and Hauptmann? Would they talk about personal issues like family, wife and children or would they keep to more professional topics and not try and get to close to each other? Would they ever confide in each other about things they dislike about a military campaign? It's objectives and ...

I cannot load the first pic from shock. Help, please!
Juha

Hello Eolson, Sorry being a little rude the other day. Here's some more definitions of Wermachts enlisted men and Non Comissioned Officers (NCO's): Gefreiter, Obergefreiter: "frei" = free. These soldiers had served long enough to be freed from unpleasent Garrison duties, for example cleani...

You'd better join the Army, You will certainly learn!
Simple rule for a Schütze was and is: Do exactly as told and ordered, nothing more or less!
Hope You'll survive
Johnny B. Goode

Great Raúl!
Cheers
Juha

Christoph, I was referring to this:

eolson wrote:Specifically the 212th Volksgrenadier Division, what would they be called in that unit?

Here's the Waffen-SS enlisted ranks:
* SS-Schütze: Private
* SS-Oberschütze (from 1942): Private 1st Class
* SS-Sturmman: Lance Corporal
* SS-Rottenführer: Corporal

John

eolson wrote:Speaking of which are there definitions of the various ranks?

Now You lost me totally! What do You mean by definitions?
With best
Johnny