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Hi Guys, The Army remained beyond direct control of the Nazi Party and few of its senior officers seem to have been party members. The Army was initially apolitical rather than anti-political in the party-political sense. However, the Nazi regime was nervous of any power centre beyond its control an...

Hi Jason, "Slander"? Slander has to be untrue. What have I written above that is untrue? YOU promised a rebuttal for the "long holiday weekend" at the turn of the year and to get it posted "ASAP". It didn't happen. In February, it was "soon". It didn't happen....

Valhalla’s Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-45. By Terry Goldsworthy. Dog Ear Publishing, Indianapolis, 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Valhalla’s Warriors , despite its populist title, is an...

Hi Ibrahim,

This subject, the giant statue of "Hermann the German", has been raised on Feldgrau before. Try

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Cheers,

Sid

Hi Feldjager, I agree. We know from their writings, speeches and political affiliations that both Stalin and Hitler had announced generalised intentions of occupying each other's turf going back decades. However, we also know for a fact that Hitler struck first and this leaves Stalin's exact positio...

Hi Guys, This is not a dig at the veterans, but a question arising from their belated recognition. It is currently inconceivable in the UK that gallantry medals would be awarded for deeds sixty years ago, but it seems to happen regularly in the USA. Is there some sort of political imperative in the ...

Hi Pirx, If you mean the BBC-sponsored channel, then I share your irritation. It began well enough showing good quality BBC historical documentaries. However, in the last year it has come to be dominated by historical fiction such as the Sharpe Napoleonic War series. In my opinion, fiction of any so...

Hi Switchhitter, Volksdeutsche who were absorbed into the Reich in places like Poland effectively became Reichsdeutsche and were subject to Reich recruitment norms. Volksdeutsche were those Germans who remained under foreign rule, mostly that of Germany's allies Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Until ...

Hi Paddy, I don't think one can reasonably say that the German Army was "quite badly mauled" in 1940. Certainly at points of breakthrough casualties could be high, but casualties are the currency armies necessarily pay for tactical and strategic advantage. The tactical and strategic advant...

Hi Valhalla, If you really do "contend that the Waffen-SS was largely responsible for the Genocide on the Eastern Front" then you are going far beyond any previous such accusation and will have to have made a truly massive breakthrough in primary source research to substantiate this. I hav...

Hi John,

I know nothing about the Nash book. Is it causing some controversy here? Perhaps I could review it without reading it, in what seems to have become a Feldgrau tradition?

My main interest is actually in Germany's allies, not the Wehrmacht.

Cheers,

Sid.

Hi Phylo, If you are saying that all armies have an acknowledged "aid-to-the-civil-power" use, then I can only agree. Which then leads to the question, if the German Army already had an "aid-to-the-civil-power" use, what on earth was the armed SS for? The German Army was arguably...

Hi pzrmeyer2, If my "protective custody" argument has been repeatedly debunked, then it shouldn't be too hard for you to do so. So perhaps you would care to try instead of making non-contributary spoiling posts that moderators should be hauling you up on for their lack of content? Cheers, ...

Hi Paddy, Dr Goldsworthy seems quite capable of looking after himself. If one saturation bombs anyone with questions they will necessarily not be able to address them all. Indeed, you will know from your own experience here, that it is sometimes difficult to get round to answering the same question ...

Hi Phylo, Yes, on some level most actions are "political". However, the German parts of the Waffen-SS were PARTY political in a totalitarian state. This is a rather different and more specific proposition. Germany, already with arguably the best army in the world, didn't need a Waffen-SS f...