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- Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:36 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Wilhelm Tieke of Im Feuersturm letzer Kriegsjahre
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6101
Tieke is still alive so far as I know. He's relatively young for being so active in veterans' affairs. I believe he was born in 1924 and was 17 when he joined Regiment Nordland in 1941 as a wartime volunteer. I am not aware of his exact dates of service and assignments, the above was what I had gath...
- Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:33 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: List of Ehrenblattspange- inhaber der Waffen SS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3820
About Heer officers in the 12. SS-PD, a number of men with Hitler Jugend leadership cadre experience were transferred to the division, even though they were not SS members. Knight's Cross holder Heer Oberleutnant Otto Toll was probably the best known, he commanded a company in SS-Panzer Pionier Bata...
- Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:47 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: List of Ehrenblattspange- inhaber der Waffen SS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3820
The SS-Polizei Division only became fully a part of the Waffen-SS in the autumn of 1942. To that point, many of its members held only Polizei rank, and not Waffen-SS rank or commission. Awards of the EBS usually occurred long after the incident in question, much more so that for the Knight's Cross. ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:46 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: moderator surgeries
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4942
- Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:59 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: SS Officer Identification in the RZM Kursk Books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1522
- Wed Feb 19, 2003 2:53 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944 by David Glantz
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4436
- Sun Feb 16, 2003 2:29 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Wilhelm Tieke of Im Feuersturm letzer Kriegsjahre
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6101
It is the same guy, he was a young wartime volunteer who served in the Nordland Regiment, and later was briefly with the III. (germ) SS-Panzerkorps after Nordland was detached from Wiking. He also spent some time with the forming Frundsberg, before ending up in Horst Wessel. This is why he has writt...
- Sun Feb 16, 2003 2:25 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Coming SS Books List
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1617
- Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:35 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Goetterdammerung 1945 by Russ Schneider
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2850
Schneider wrote and self-published two volumes of gripping fiction set on the Eastern Front. He called his company Neue Paradies Verlag (though he was based in Florida, USA) and his books are Madness Without End, and Demyansk, with the latter supposedly also existing under the title Nightmares and S...
- Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:28 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Estonian Vikings- need review
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1506
- Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:08 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Estonian Vikings- need review
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1506
It is a nice, though short, collection of photos. The text is largely based on the Narwa Bataillon sections of Estonian Freedom Fighters in WW2, while almost all the photos have already been published in the three volume history of the Narwa Bataillon published by the veterans in Estonia. However, I...
- Mon Feb 10, 2003 1:58 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Das Reich by James Lucas
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4064
The Das Reich book is better than most of Lucas's (RIP) stuff, because it wasn't the same old same old he recycled from book to book. Instead, it was based on research material that Mark Yerger provided to him. There is some duplication with Yerger's two Knights of Steel volumes, but those books nev...
- Sun Feb 09, 2003 10:27 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Leon DeGrelle and his memoirs...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2811
- Fri Feb 07, 2003 2:53 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Leon DeGrelle and his memoirs...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2811
My French is very poor, but apparently Degrelle (NOT DeGrelle) was a very good writer. Certainly, the English translation of his wartime memoirs (he wrote many other books) captures exactly the sort of poetic descriptions that Scneider mentions. However, while Degrelle's book is extremely entertaini...
- Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:12 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Anyone Who've Read Pierik's From Leningrad to Berlin?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2017
Daniel, it is not so much that the book is full of errors, but instead, that it is so lacking in information on its subject. The book starts with a discussion on Juegen Stroop and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. A lot of time is then spent establishing the negative aspects of the SS, which is ...