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Hello to all :D; a little more.............. The 57 ID at Kharkov – October 1941 (2º part). On Oct 23 1941, the Division knew that in Charkow was deployed the 216 SD with its CP located in the city’s north-east quarter with well established positions along the western edge and within the wooded land...

Hello to all :D; a little more follows........................ Scorched-Earth Policy. The Germans did one thing, however, which made later partisan operations difficult. They burned villages, razed farms, and seized all cattles and horses. The peasants who did not flee were either killed or deported...

Thank you very much for that complement Benoit . Cheers. Raúl M .

Seemingly you've right. Thank you Guy. Cheers . Raúl M .

Hello to all :D; after a while, the 57 ID point of view aout this battle.............. The 57 ID at Kharkov – October 1941. 1. Approaching the target. From Poltava to Kharkov - Oct 1941. After the great encirclement of Kiev was finished, to the end of September 1941, the 17 AOK proceeded its advance...

Hello to all ; could anyone here tell me who is this General? Could be General Lanz? TIA. Cheers. Raúl M .

Hello to all :D; a little more follows........................ Food Problems. Transportation is only one of the numerous logistic problems which confront a guerrilla leader. It is easy to say that partisans “live off the land,” but what if viIlages have been razed, the farmers deported or massacred,...

Hello to all ; I've brought this post up in order to shed some light on this action: does the Rolf Hinze's Bug Moskwa Beresina mentions something about the attack carried out by the 267 ID and the 34 ID on Tschitschkowo (Chichkovo) against the 58. SD on 10.09.1942?. TIA. Cheers. RAúl M .

Hello to all :D; a little more follows........................ Villages Stripped. This was easier said than done. The villages in our own partisan-controlled zone had been impoverished by constant raids and supply operations. Not a single horse was left in most of them. Many had been razed by the Ge...

Hello to all :D; a little more follows........................ Advantages and Disadvantages. To make the attack possible, Soviet transport aircraft dropped containers with PTR antitank rifles, ammunition, delayed-action bombs, a few thousand “soap cakes” of TNT fuzes and detonators. The PTR antitank...

Hello to all :D; a little more follows........................ Misused Dogma. When I served with the Reconnaissance Detachment of the Rokossovsky Brigade of Soviet Partisan Forces in the forests of Belorussia in World War II, more than one carefully conceived and planned guerrilla operation failed b...

Hello to all :D; a little article dealing with the partisan warfare thru the eyes of one partisan member... ORGANIZED LOOTING The Basis of Partisan Warfare Leo Heiman . Military Review. Feb 1965. N EARLY all books published in recent years on the subject of guerrilla warfare have one serious shortco...

Hello people :D; the last part of it............................ On Sep 10 1942 the struggle went on and both regiments should break hard resistence yet. The I./ IR 421 after a short fight grasped the whole Park of Culture and Entertaiment and then both battalions (IR 421) moved ahead as one unit; a...

Hello dennisb, do not mention it . If you find something tell us. Cheers. Raúl M .

Hello dennisb, I'm doing my best be patient :D. For sure your guy wasn't with the 125 ID because this unit left the city on Sep 12 1942 and then was within the LVII Pz K's frame from Sep 19 onwards. So I'm trying to find out his unit. Some parts of the IR 62 (its III. Battalion i.e) raised the IR 20...