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- Tue Dec 31, 2002 3:42 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Waffen SS Divisions and number of men served
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17293
Sid, Wiking didn't leave the front at that time, not as a division. However, at many points various battalions of the division were being reconstructed in Germany, so anything of this sort probably involved such a formation on the way back to the division. A different point, I still think that warti...
- Tue Dec 31, 2002 3:34 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: To Battle by Michael James Melnyk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12886
Melnyk's father was a survivor of the Ukrainian Division who settled in the UK after the war. Logusz has no family connection to the unit, but has a background in Slavic languages, which facilitated his study of the unit. Unfortunately, that background doesn't extend to the German military, so his b...
- Mon Dec 30, 2002 11:32 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: best Waffen-SS Division?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9394
The Hitlerjugend Division certainly fought very well in Normandy, but it is worth noting that its offensive operations in the first days of the invasion weren't conducted especially well, because due to time and fuel shortages, the division had never conducted large scale unit exercises. Meanwhile, ...
- Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:24 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Junkerschule Lehrgang questions...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1757
Hi Timo, in regards to your first question, if a man was considered officer material, then he could be sent to the JS whatever his rank. He did not need to become an NCO first, though he would hold NCO equivalent ranks after passing various stages of his Lehrgang, becoming a Junker, a Standartenjunk...
- Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:32 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Waffen SS Divisions and number of men served
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17293
I do think that Wiking had btter quality leadership than did Totenkopf, up to the summer of 1943. This was because it was commanded by long serving professional officers such as Steiner, Gille, Phleps, and von Scholz, while Totenkopf was commanded by by men with only enlisted ranks or non-combat exp...
- Sat Dec 28, 2002 11:21 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Author Critique: Richard Landwehr
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2832
Landwehr is about 52, and lives in southwestern Oregon. I talk to him on the phone once in a while, arranging for research material, and he seems like a very pleasant man who, as he shows in his writings, is outraged by what he considers the hypocrisy and injustice that surrounds the study of World ...
- Fri Dec 27, 2002 11:21 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Can anyone identify this Sturmbannführer?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9530
- Fri Dec 27, 2002 11:15 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Christmas books
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1978
- Fri Dec 27, 2002 11:04 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: The Ardennes Offensive: VI Panzer Armee... by Bruce Quarrie
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1828
- Wed Dec 25, 2002 11:00 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Can anyone identify this Sturmbannführer?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9530
- Wed Dec 25, 2002 10:57 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Waffen SS Divisions and number of men served
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17293
- Mon Dec 23, 2002 1:59 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944 by David Glantz
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4423
- Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:44 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Charlemange
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4377
- Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:20 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Any MILITARY justification for an independent Waffen-SS?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5651
Sid, I think you missed the significance of my first and main point. These men without an Abitur (Rob, it is a school-leaving certificate required to attend higher education, and in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht was a necessity for officer training until well into the war) would have been stuck at se...
- Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:14 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: SS Totenkopf northern France May 1940 -actions against BEF
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6910
I'm addressing this specifically to Sid (and indirectly to Tom), because all of the other responses, whatever their viewpoint, fall victim to name calling and insults. I usually try to stay out of these attempts to out shout each other, but I want people to understand that there is more than one ver...