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by Rolf Steiner
Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:23 am
Forum: Books and Reviews
Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Replies: 7
Views: 4051

Re: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans

Thanks chaps, will follow those up... was having a peek at this in the meantime: http://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=occupation+and+collaboration&hl=en&ei=4d7yTJzWKcrGswbgxIGdCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwA...
by Rolf Steiner
Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:16 am
Forum: Books and Reviews
Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Replies: 7
Views: 4051

Re: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans

Hi Krichter I'm certainly getting that impression - neither Ian Allen nor the IWM shop had anything promising, although the most obscure aspects of WWII seem to be covered, there's even a large glossy tome on Wermacht rations (the processed cheese in tubes sounds particularly unappetising). Odd how ...
by Rolf Steiner
Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:07 am
Forum: Books and Reviews
Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Replies: 7
Views: 4051

Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans

Had a quick nose around the Ian Allen shop today, but apart from a Skorzeny memoir, there didn't seem to be much available on the above subject... can anyone recommend a decent read on the Balkan anti-partisan area of things? Cheers in advance!
by Rolf Steiner
Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:05 am
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
Replies: 122
Views: 129297

Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht

Ok so now we've worked up to another long one! A serviceman is dying in a hospital bed. Feebly he calls out to the nurse. 'Sister, tell me, who have I made this sacrifice for?' 'Why, the German people, as personified by our fuhrer!' 'Can he be here by my side in these last moments sister?' 'Well no,...
by Rolf Steiner
Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:09 pm
Forum: War Crimes
Topic: Himmler. The final days.
Replies: 2
Views: 4007

Re: Himmler. The final days.

General consensus seems to be that one of his deepest-set characteristics was 'incredible naivety'. That and indecisiveness, which might explain why he threw on an eye patch and a borrowed uniform in May '45 rather than put his negotiating abilities to the test!
by Rolf Steiner
Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:49 pm
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
Replies: 122
Views: 129297

Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht

If it's brevity you're after - what has gold in its teeth, silver in its hair and lead in its bones?

A member of the Volksturm!
by Rolf Steiner
Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:11 pm
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
Replies: 122
Views: 129297

Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht

On the broader subject of humour in Germany at the time, I just chanced across a book entitled 'dead funny', dealing with that subject, which featured examples such as: Hitler is being driven through the countryside by his chauffeur. There is a thump; they have run over a chicken close to a farmhous...
by Rolf Steiner
Fri May 27, 2011 1:05 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Replies: 7
Views: 4664

Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel

By crikey Ginger, they're showing it again! And this week, that great episode - the only one I'd seen in the interim since its original showing, as they chose to show it as a one-off in the 90s - of the Brit who tries to swing a passage home by faking insanity, but going too far into it and actually...
by Rolf Steiner
Tue May 03, 2011 12:47 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Dresden TV drama
Replies: 3
Views: 3184

Dresden TV drama

Annoyingly, I kept dropping in and out of consciousness while this was on the other night (due to the late hour of the broadcast, it was anything but boring). Appears to have been a fairly recent made-for-TV drama showing the leadup to the 1945 raid from both sides. Anyone else catch it, would be in...
by Rolf Steiner
Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:38 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Replies: 7
Views: 4664

Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel

Secret Army was genius - multi-leveled moral ambiguity, sympathetic and non-sympathetic characters on both sides, and of course Clifford Rose as Kessler, a nightmare splicing of Himmler and Grange Hill's Mr Bronson! Not so sure about that Enemy At The Door thing, the casting of that bloke from Hi Di...
by Rolf Steiner
Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:34 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Dornier 17 salvage
Replies: 2
Views: 3993

Dornier 17 salvage

Just caught the tail end of a piece on the news, they've located a downed DO17 either in coastal or estuary waters and looking at retrieving it... apparently no other surviving examples?
by Rolf Steiner
Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:21 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Yesterday Channel's Nazi Collaborators series
Replies: 0
Views: 2989

Yesterday Channel's Nazi Collaborators series

Not sure how old this series is, but it's been on fairly constant rotation weeknights on Yesterday Channel. Interesting documentaries anyhow, including one on Mannerheim, which surprised me slightly as I had the feeling he'd taken care to keep the relationship as strictly 'co-belligerent' and kept n...
by Rolf Steiner
Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:15 pm
Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
Topic: Arizona shooter cited Mein Kampf in online postings...
Replies: 11
Views: 12401

Re: Arizona shooter cited Mein Kampf in online postings...

Don't ALL crazed gunmen read MK? Picked one up in Borders once, regretted it within paragraphs. Hate to think what the sequel was like.
by Rolf Steiner
Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:31 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Replies: 7
Views: 4664

Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel

Sorry, that's the Yesterday channel, not yesteryear... from what I recall the 'glider in the attic' was also a true story? Can't tear myself away from this on weeknights... although I think I've missed the episode in which the bloke tries to get himself sent home on a fraudulent insanity ticket and ...
by Rolf Steiner
Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:38 pm
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Replies: 7
Views: 4664

Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel

Apart from the odd isolated episode, I haven't seen this series in 35 years, so it's great to see it again and nice to see how well it still stands up as a well-produced TV drama. Curious though, how close to history did the scriptwriters stick? Over the four episodes this week, the Commandant has s...