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Agree with Groscurth, it seems to be the north of france architecture. The city of Lille looked like that in 1940. It's just an example. Anyway, Brian what is the emblem on the soldiers's helmets ?

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But during the WWI, the Schneider family wanted that the name was spelled like that : SCHNEIDRE for being more french. Just for info.

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Hi Brian, Good point if your grandfather was a pionier. If we know whose the pionier abteilung belong to, we'll surely have the answers about your pictures. So all we know that your grandfather's unit was building a wooden bridge ( the main bridge has blown up surely by the french army) in a deserte...

Hi Schwerpunkt, For one cent more, I think like you : If you want to think : Take a book If you want to have entertainement : watch TV or movie If you want to know the truth : be sceptical If you want to have fun : take a ......... CENSORED If you want to get suicide : Hear a Celine Dion's song Anyw...

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I guess that it isn't Saving Meg Ryan but just Private Ryan. Tom Hanks has already saved her in Sleepless in Seattle. But if she has to be saved one more time, I'am volunteer....

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Hi Brian,

The soldiers on the broken bridge seem to be german and on the left on the bridge it could a part of a wooden bridge. Maybe it's a pionier unit. Anyway do you know in which unit your grandfather was in may/june/july 1940 ?

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I don't think it was a Balkenkreuz on the turret left side but just a "sighting hole" ( I don't how to translate it maybe "episcope") just like beneath :

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Could be but anyway it's hard to follow all the german "adaptation". With the germans everything was possible for the captured weapons. A good example : the Marder tank.

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Hi Brian, If we suppose that the river is the Moselle : 1) Th Moselles flows from the south to the north. 2) On the picture, the river seems to flow from the right to the left So the city in the back is on the east bank of the river ( like Epinal) and the soldiers are the west bank. That's logical b...

Hi Brian, I was talking about something written on the grey building on the right of the picture above the head of the sitting soldier. this the adress for Epinal 1) the official site : http://www.ville-epinal.fr/ 2) the official site with photos : http://epinal.free.fr/photos.htm The church doesn't...

Hi, Thanks to Jason Pipes for his avatars gallery and divisions emblems. For the 272 ID http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/images/avatar/gallery/emblems2/272inf.jpg For the 275 ID http://www.feldgrau.com/emblems/275inf.jpg for the 89 ID http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/images/avatar/gallery/emblems4/89inf...

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To Alsaco :
The site adress is : http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/

Hi, According to my book The commander of the II Armee-Korps : General der Infanterie Adolf Strauss from september 1939 to april 1940 (Not sure for "der", Ich habe deutsch im schule zwei jahren gelernt, aber jetzt, alles ist vergessen, nichts zu machen). For the 86 IR try this : http://www...

Hi stefan,

Will the german governement ask to the Bundeswehr to do more with less means ? I mean there are some german troops in Bosnia ( good hunt for Karadzic), in Kosovo, in Afghanistan...