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Hi Wolfkin,
the last rank of Jochen Peiper was SS-Standartenführer.
/Rudi

Maybe I joined the Army to late, but what you wrote about the Verpflegungssatz - Feldration was just written on paper. I remember that we didn't get enough food while in training in Leoben/Steiermark and later on the front we had mostly to care ourselves for food. We got it from the farmers or - if ...

I wish all veterans of WW II and the members of this forum

a merry Christmas and a happy 2 0 0 5

/Rudi

Today I got the newest book about theLandsberg War Criminal Prison Nr.1(Landsberger Kriegsverbrechergefängnis) and the history of the Spöt- tinger Friedhof by Heinrich Pflanz. The book is the first documented about that time with a lot of fotos and letters, really interesting. You can order this boo...

Pan Orzel, please tell us what the old members of the former Waffen-SS have to do with skinheads or neonazis? Bring me only one source that veterans showed Naziflags or anything else during their meetings. Why do you think veterans from the States still meet with veterans of the former Waffen-SS? Th...

To the lists I would add: Seven Days in January by Wolf T. Zoepf, forworded by Brigadier General Theodore C.Mataxis,published by The Aberjona Press in Bedford and Black Edelweiss by Johann Voss, published by The Aberjona Press too. Both books show the fights of the 6. Waffen-SS-Gebirgsdivision "...

Thanks a lot, Rudi, even a little late.
Happy New Year to all of you

/Rudi

I wish all users a merry Christmas
and a happy NEW YEAR !
/Rudi

You should try to get this book,because it's one of the best.

H Groscurth, I nearly have the same "history" like Gerhard, just joined one year later the Waffen-SS. I got my PC after I retired in 1992 and I think I can handle it well. You are never to old to learn if you want to, that's why I learned playing keyboard too. I like both, surching the int...

M.Wittmann,
please remember, in Lidice was it a czech policeunit who shoot 199 men.
Not even one soldier of the Waffen-SS was there.
regards
Rudi

We have a book from E.G.Krätschmer, where all bearers of the RK of the Waffen-SS are named. His name is not in this book, so it is sure, that he hadn't the RK as a member of the Waffen-SS.
Regards Rudi

Well,I started with 14 as aLuftwaffenhelfer (antiaircraft 8,8),then I had the pleasure to join the Reichsarbeitsdienst in March 1944 and was later a volunteer to the 6. Waffen-SS-Gebirgsdivision "NORD".,where I was at the end SS-Junker and Führerbewerber (officer to be). In the first days ...

Hello,
I'm new in this forum too and I hope to get a lot of informations.
Rudi