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I find "Save Private Ryan" a good movie. And much more realistic than earliers hollywood productions (exept "Iron Cross" from 80's - very good film about battle near Anapa), and very poor Soviet or Polish production ("Lotna" or "Tank crew and dog" this two are...

2/43 Heavy Artylery Regiment (some sources indicate whole 43 regiment, other only 2/43 abtailung) in 1939 belongs to 7th Army Corps as independent unit, direct under command inf. gen. E. von Schobert. What happened later, i don't know.

I choose 8th Jagger Division in east front near Staraja Russa (AG Nord). This is not well known unit, and not famous battle (rather campaign), but it's ordinary german division, with ordinary soldiers without war crimes, and this battlefield was very interesting. (And my relative was there )

Yes. Hitlers dream about lebensraum was just a fantasy. But his idea was not one and only. SS-Standartenfuhrer Jurgen Stroop in jail after war told to investigators about two other concepcions of lebensraum, different from Hitler but more real. For example there was conception to create in occupied ...

In 1939, Lvov’s population was 340,000 of whom 110,000 were Jews. There lives also 180000 Poles , 40 000 Ukrainians, the rest were Germans, Rusians, Ormians. September 12 Germans capture small city Sambor, and began siege of Lwow (by the way it was not big operation). Germans didn't planed to occupy...

Very interesting discusion. My own answer is: France & UK couldn't stay away. Hitlers best dream was Germany from Vogese's to Ukrainian steps. He's lebensraum in east got to bariers: Poland & USSR. Danzig or corridor was just a pretext to create common border with russians. After WWI and Red...

France 1940 was a big surprise for Stalin and Hitler. The first one and his advisors probably thought that war in western europe didn't finish till summer 1941, or even both sides will fight few years. Hitler believes that he can win quick, but german loses were much smaller than OKW/OKH expected, s...

Japan was completly not interested in war against soviets. Japanese soldier was brave but his equipment was very poor. Emperors Army never had any panzer division, even panzer regiment. 1941 they had only 300 medium tanks and about 2500 light tanks and tankettes. Japanese were defeated by Zhukov in ...

Is possible situation from "Save Private Ryan"?
I don't know german unit in American landing zone with Tigers. Possible tanks there was PzKw mk 2, 3 and captured French and Russians.
When was first contact American soldiers in France '44 with PzKw mk VI?

1. Festung Breslau (21.01.1945-6.05.1945). In fact that was tragedy for this city but it was most amazing defence during war.
2. Re-taken Charkov in autumn 1943 (after Stalingrad and Kursk it was realy surprise).
3. Crete 1941 , that was surprise too.

Hi. First of all I'm not sure that in september 1939 Army Corps was oficially named XXVI. In my sources during "September Campaign" it was Called Army Corps "Wodrig" from name of commander gen. ltn. A.Wodrig. Let me explein that. Standard Army Corps in 1939 consist 2-4 divisions ...

German high command planed to built 4 huge carriers, temporary named „Flugzeugträger” A, B, C i D. september 30,1936 r. Friedrich Krupps shipyard started built class B, and december 28, 1936 r. another one class A. Main data: 23 140 tons dimensions of deck 257,3 x 27 x 7,60 m, top speed 35 knots ran...

I can send a few real stories from first hand : Peter Paul Mattner from
8 Jäger-Division served from late 1941 to 1945. If You're intrested contact to me [email protected]

Hi. My grandfather - Peter Paul Mattner (born 1922) is a veteran from 8 Jäger-Division. He served from summer 1941 to april 1945. What I know he was in training camp near Metz in France, then he was transfered to Eastern Front Armee Group Nord. Twice wounded (stomach and hand) near Staraja Russa in ...

It's not a secret that many Poles was in wehrmacht during WWII. Still in Poland lives c.a. 100 000 vets. There was three possibillities to get to German Army: 1. In 1939 in 3rd Reich lives 1 milion Poles with German Passport, so young men where took to the army just like other young Germans. (70%) 2...