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Hi, A jerry can holds 20 liters. Don't know the German nickname for the Wehrmachtskanister, but the Ami can gave me a chuckle. More information than most people will ever want to know about jerry cans = http://www.jed.simonides.org/misc/jerrycans/jerrycans.html http://home.online.no/~bjjen13b/BJLR/j...

Hi, I dealt with the company a while back and it was like pullin teeth to get answers. All I wanted to know was if they had a particular book in stock. After a few messages, I bought somewhere else. I'm glad I checked before sending money. Maybe it was an exception, but the whole thing left me with ...

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These might do for starters: The Death and Life of Germany by Eugene Davidson; From the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting; and Werwolf! by Perry Biddiscombe.

Rohrbach

Hi, The information came mostly from For God, Country, and Coca-Cola by Mark Pendergrast. I also found info on the web using key words like Keith, Coke, Fanta, etc. Jason, I'm not so sure the authors of what you read were trying to gloss things over so much as they just didn't think to go further ba...

Hi Jason, I think what happened is this. When the American military and the accompanying American Technical Observers arrived in Germany in 1945 they took over what was left of the coke bottling plants. There had been 43 of them and they were all bombed out. The Americans found Max Keith still bottl...

Hi, FANTA is short for fantasie. When trying to find a name for the new product, Max Keith, head of Coca Cola GmbH during the nazi years, went to his employees asking for suggestions and told them to let their fantasy run wild. Somebody hit on FANTA. The coke made in Germany was made with all local ...

Thank you Annelie for the info. It's not the bell that was ringing, but Thielemann's book sounds interesting. I am sorry I missed his time on this site. Samuel's book is great. Hard to put down. One of the best memoirs in the genre. The only question I have is what ever happened to his sister Ingrid...

Hi Annelie,

From Bar to Bear rings a bell, but I can't figure out why. Could you please tell me a little more about it? I couldn't find anything on the net.

BTW, German Boy was written by Col (USAF ret.) Wolfgang Samuel. Ambrose wrote the forward.

Rohrbach

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I asked the resident experts and enthusiasists on the SS forum about Peter Neumann and his book a week ago, but I haven't gotten any answers. Is there anybody out there in the general reading public who can give me the skinny on Peter Neumann? Is he legit or making things up?

Thanx
Rohrbach

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I was at a garage sale the other day and picked up The Black March by Peter Neumann for 50 cents. Sitting here looking at a large back log of books to read, I was wondering if anybody could tell if the book is worth moving to the top of the pile.

Rohrbach

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Has anyone here read Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaign in Norway, Finland, and the USSR 1940-1945? The author is Chris Mann. I haven't found any reviews and at a slim 224 pages I think it might be a little lacking.

Rohrbach

Hi George Lepre, Its hard to believe that so little research as been done on this near mythic organization. Seems to me, especially with the SS connection, that this would have been covered in depth several times over. I agree it would be nice if books about this and other less well known topics wer...

Hi, Richard Grunberger's Red Rising in Bavaria does provide alot of great information on the Munich Soviet and is definitely worth reading. Two others covering the same topic are Allan Mitchell's Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919 and David Clay Large's Where Ghosts Walked. Large's book takes a longer...

Hi George Lepre, Thanks for the response. Despite its limitations, it sounds like an interesting read. Can you please also suggest any books about the "whole ODESSA" (the internal and international functions) or about the "internal ODESSA" (the organization and its activities in ...

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Yes, its true he passed away. It was either in August or September of last year. Lucas was a pretty prolific writer. Doing a search on Amazon is probably your best bet for a list of his work.

Rohrbach