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first of all, i am not the one who asked the question here..........someone else did. i offered my two cents worth, gave a specific unit, gave a specific time it happened, and then i am chastized, and called names for trying to help someone else's question. what you are going to find, christoph, is ...

here is the first thing i have found "written", saying they used live fire for you.
(grasshopper) he he
come on,.......laugh.............you know it's funny,.....

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/waffen-ss.htm

i dont really know what to say either. you asked for specific time, specific unit,..........i provided both for the guy, no, i dont have it in a book right in front of my face.............right now,...............but that makes it a little bit more then a random rumor from every unit in the wehrmach...

looking at 10 power magnification, the first digit is either a Z, or a 2, and is thinner font then the 396..............ie, the 396 are fatter then the first digit. plate is almost a square, vs. the long thin style license plate. does anyone know what I'm looking at? I'm not a license plate expert, ...

asking the question,..............in this case, i am like the ancient warrior in the david caradine tv series, "kung fu", and you are grass hopper,.......... i am giving you what information is known in my memory banks,........and giving you a specific time frame, and specific unit, for yo...

this person asked, and i stated what i know on the topic, or what i have heard, from talking to veterans in the past, or books i have read in the past, or from talking to other collectors, etc, ............... in the past. what you are talking about, christian, is the "myth", that, "b...

totenkopf is the specific unit that himmler was criticized for using live ammo with, ........... of course, all units, or just about all of them, trained shooting targets with live ammo, but totenkopf was trained specifically with exercises which soldiers were killed during training................c...

grave photos as i come across them while doing scanning. i got one scanned the other day, i made a post asking people about it, it is a luftwaffe pilot, killed december 5th i think (cant remember off the top of my head now), and buried alone. these are teh ones that are probably "lost souls&quo...

if it wasnt in your books, and no one else is willing to say that they have heard the same fact, then i guess it just didnt happen.

or so,..............not '44, but could be i guess. the owner of the album was in a horse drawn supply unit, regular army.

I just received a photo album, of an army unit, in which almost all of the photos are taken in Germany or France. the 2nd SS Division Das Reich, 3rd regiment "Deutschland", was formed October 22, '42, and was in Rennes, France, at that time. It then went to Kiev. I do not think any of the ...

"this" doesnt clear up anything.......................... what the "myth" is, is that the totenkopf division trained with live ammo, and troops were killed in training because of it. i'm sure if you read a book about totenkopf, before they hit russia, you wil read that himmler wa...

hope it helps!

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... /327ID.htm

at this point, i am just doing some research on a feldpost grouping, from a guy who was in that campaign and unit. lot of letters, hard for me to read, his handwriting is good, but in type of script that is difficult to read, unless you are a 75+ year old german.............. wish i had them all tra...

i'd try the city hall, or local library there,...........in the city itself. would be best to go there, vs. sending letters to people who arent really interested.........probably get a better response that way. it's harder to send you away if you are standing there. the other way, is by going by the...