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To answer the question: To my knowledge there is no general history of Austria (Ostmark) during World War II 1938-1945, at least I haven't heard of such a book yet. However, there seems to be a small armada of books about the history of Austria in the last war year of 1945. Here are a few interestin...

Pretorian: A couple of weeks ago the Hungarian War Archives & Museum in Budapest has decided to put online, in a digital form, the k.k. Honvéd Schematismus. You can find on their website direct links to nine different k.k. Honvéd Schematismus for nine different years: 1917, 1918, 1927, 1928, 193...

Were there any Czech units fighting on the German side. Several weeks ago I was involved in a discussion about Czechs in Wehrmacht on the AxisForum, where I have written a few biths about Czechs in the German Armed Forces in World War 2 and Czech Government Troops in Italy 1944-45. To access the di...

Zivjo! David: I don't think that was a betrayal, but rather a lie or a deceive. As I said I am just reading some books about this right now during my long train rides and it is fascinating. In 1938, shortly before CZ was occupied there was a meeting in Czechoslovakia of the so-called PAX ROMANA move...

Well, I personally would vote for the Munich Agreement 1938, an agreement reached on September 29, 1938, between Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy (no Czechoslovakia???) as one of the worst betrayals in WW2. The poor Czechoslovaks, very close allies of British and French, were left with...

Zivjo Klemen, This night is very long! Mislim, da je sarkazem tukaj odveč. :? --- cut --- * SS-Oberschütze HERMANN OREL, geb. 10.10.1923 in Schönstein, KIA on 11.06.1942 at Bol Dubowizy (Rußland)) * SS-Schütze LEOPOLD GORSCHEK, geb. 09.11.1922 in Trifail, KIA 12.08.1943 at Res.Krgslaz. 3/IV...

Hi guys,

Just curious, but does anyone know by any chance the first name of the Italian Captain Gavino, the skipper of the passenger liner Romolo that escaped from Brisbane in 1940 and was then "caught" by RAAF in the Solomons?

Best regards,

Klemen

Zivjo Kocjo, As I have promised, I'm writing you down a new detailed Order of Battle for the German, Croatian and Yugoslav Forces in the Sarajevo Operation, which took place during 28 March - 10 April 1945. German & Croatian Forces: In March 1945, the area of Sarajevo was under the command of th...

Hi! This is a bit off topic, but I am selling a brandnew, fresh, still hot from print ( :wink: ) and almost never touched copy of Raymond Lamont-Brown's book Kempetai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police . Here are some basic information about the book: Raymond Lamont-Brown : " Kempeitai: Japan's D...

Hi Lupo, No need for panick here, Lupo, hehe. The info that you have send to me is very good through here are some sub-questions of mine: a.) What was the official designation of the Italian defence force (40 men) on the islands? Who was its CO? b.) How come there were no Guardia di Finanza on the i...

Goat is.... goat: Capra in italian..... I think, that Klemen wants to see a photo of this emblem (and me too). Yep. I was hoping to see that emblem of a goat as it is the first time I have heard of a such an emblem being used in Istrien. Nothing more, nothing less. NOT links with RSI, nor with Germ...

About SS-Pol.Rgt. Nagel, I have heard of this unit, also was in Slovenia. No, bos potem kdaj kaj vec povedal o njej. Slikce bom objavil na netu v threadu "Pictures from MNZS", ce bos videl kaj zanimivega mi povej. Sam dej mi nekaj casa! Ma ni panike. Pa daj raje odpri kaksno novo sekcijo,...

I need info on units from both sides, which units were there! YUGOSLAV ARMY: * 3rd Corps with 27th and 38th Divisions was to advance from Podromanija to Sarajevo * 2nd Assault Corps (south of the 3rd Corps) with 3rd Montenegrian Assault Division moving from Trnovo to Ilidza, 29th Herzegovinian Divi...

Gee, guys! No need to rush with your replies!

Klemen

Just wonder if someone could fill me with some details about these Greek islands (today according to my map called MEGISTI) which are dangerously close to the Turkish coast during World War II? I know there was an ill-fated British commando raid on the islands and that from 1943 onwards they were us...