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by 4444
Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:45 am
Forum: The Allies in WWII
Topic: The Russians independent of numerical superiority
Replies: 45
Views: 11196

I think there are only few things which p*** off the Russians more than a suggestion they defeated the Germans because of the numbers. This is why they celebrate all stories which document to the contrary. If you want a sample, please have a look at http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=114...
by 4444
Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:24 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Enemy at the Gates discrepencies or "The Worst Movie Ev
Replies: 98
Views: 28238

Too bad I understand everything :? What does the text talk about? sorry, I am too lazy to translate all this tirade. Key points, as written above, are that Annaud makes the Russians look like idiots by showing "human wave" as they beloved attack tactics and by picking guys who do not rese...
by 4444
Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:55 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Enemy at the Gates discrepencies or "The Worst Movie Ev
Replies: 98
Views: 28238

Re: I loved the movie

4444 wrote:... I wish I had the address somewhere...
found it!
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Please enjoy at http://www.battlefield.ru/shame/enemy/enemy_r.html
by 4444
Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:08 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Enemy at the Gates discrepencies or "The Worst Movie Ev
Replies: 98
Views: 28238

I loved the movie

I loved the movie. Its dark, unexplicable, odd, agonising climat very much resembled "Blade Runner" to me. Actually, it was a bit like a "Blade Runner" story. I do not care about errors. This was a movie. Funny you are unahppy with it. I remember once I have stumbled over a Russi...
by 4444
Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:52 pm
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Greek priests in SS - Calicia Division???
Replies: 4
Views: 2459

Sheptytsky and SS

I vaguely recollect I have read that Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the Greek-Catholic church in the Ukraine, has fiercely objected to Greek-Catholic chaplains serving in the SS. Kill me if I can quote the source, but this seems logical, given his general non-commitment strategy.
by 4444
Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:02 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: erledigt
Replies: 10
Views: 3423

manythanks

DeBaer wrote:erledigt is very drastic (at least in today's language).
so it would be "finished".
many thanks, very grateful
by 4444
Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:01 pm
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: erledigt
Replies: 10
Views: 3423

erledigt

how would you translate „erledigt”?

“finished”?
“worn out”?
“useless”?
“exhausted”?

anything else?

This is how an own HG command described to OKH the state of a certain division after heavy fighting. I would like to ascertain whether this division can be considered destroyed or still operational.
by 4444
Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:44 am
Forum: Books and Reviews
Topic: Richard Pipes, "Vixi" and Fall Weiss numbers
Replies: 1
Views: 1353

Richard Pipes, "Vixi" and Fall Weiss numbers

anyone has read? I have been told Pipes quotes some sensational figures on German losses during Fall Weiss (91.000 KIAs, allegedly according to some "recently uncovered archives"). First, I am not sure whether Pipes has indeed written what seems to be a total nonsence. Second, I wonder aft...
by 4444
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:26 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

If you do, indeed, have something more substantive than Reinefarth that sheds as direct and authoritative a light on German losses at Warsaw as von dem Bach, do please let us have it. If you have 11, so much the better 1. Bach has discredited himself as a reliable source of data when he gave two va...
by 4444
Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:24 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

My source for the "Polish" figure was a Polish encyclopedia. From my photocopies I see that the initials of its title were EPMS or EMPS. It is in the British Library. I should be able to track it down for you The 26.000 figure is not Polish. It is the mainstream historiography figure from...
by 4444
Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:29 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

beer vs cider

sid guttridge wrote:Now about the beer. Could we make it a dry cider instead?
no way! Dry cider is different stuff. I would have offered dry cider if we had discussed at least the armies, if not the entire Heeresgruppen!
by 4444
Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:25 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

A formed division has a significant organic "tail" that von dem Bach's ad hoc agglomeration of smaller units might well have lacked. Any information on that no, unfortunately no info, just down to speculations. I would assume that ratio of front-end combat units vs the back office units d...
by 4444
Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:24 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

Excuse the bittiness of my reply today. I lost a long post somewhere into the ether earlier today and so will keep this to short instalments sure. The only problem is my MS Word thesaurus, Roget’s Thesaurus and all dictionaries I have failed to inform me what “bittiness” is. I presume it has someth...
by 4444
Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:29 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

Please let me dig a bit and will revert soon No-one knows the numbers even by estimate, as the battle is very poorly researched. There were 3 tank corpses involved on the German side and 6 mechanized corpses on the Soviet side. I would estimate it was some 1.000 German tanks and some 4.000 Soviet t...
by 4444
Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:43 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Heroes
Replies: 104
Views: 34116

Sorry. But the fact remains that von dem Bach's men lost slightly over 25% of their men. Even disregarding all comparisons with Kursk, these are not light losses too easy. First, we do not know how many people Bach had under his command throughout the entire period; we know only snapshots from some...