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Since "panzer leader" = armored commander, how about General George Patton?

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Hi folks - WRT W-SS in Indochina take a look at this thread:

http://www.feldgrau.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1314

Best wishes for a successful operation and a speedy recovery! - Rob

Hi Tom - In a flawed but interesting book on the German anti-partisan effort in Russia, the author (his name escapes me right now), points out that some WSS leading lights, like Otto Kumm, Bittrich and Steiner, were some of the loudest voices in attempting to moderate the HSSPF/Security police appro...

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LOL! Sid, you have made my day!
 

Hi Tom - great posts (as always)

I've heard Hasso Peiper may have served in the SD - any truth to that?

- Rob

Hi Werwulf - it completely depends on the specific unit and the exact date. There are too many variables to say "an SS platoon was exactly # men with # k-98 rifles and # P-38's and # MG-42's etc. Tables of Organization and Equipment studies (TOE's) are a whole military history subculture in the...

Hey Doc! Thanks for your posts. Tychsen's P-38 could be under a hay bale, rusting in some Normandy well or in a shoebox in the dark corner of someone's attic. Who knows. BTW I wanted to highlight your reference to the collectibilty of authenticated W-SS militaria. I doubt many people realize how Thi...

I suspect it may have been the infamous US 42nd Inf Div from New York, called the "Rainbow" Division because of it's diverse ethnic makeup (Poles, Italians, Jews...) who all had a fierce hatred for Germans and embodied the worst elements of New York City (theft, looting, black marketing, ...

So it's nearly sure that Friedrich Metzger and Frédéric Metzger was the same person. Not so fast. I would say one would need a few more correspondences in order to make a match. And that it's extremely common to have duplicate names when working with a large pool of individuals. There were probably...

Hi everyone - Bando mentions that Guillotte's wife doesn't know what he did with the P-38 pistol after taking it from Tychsen.

WRT the "crimes by nationality" concept, I once had a guy email me that it was the "Ukrainians" of the LSSAH division that committed the Malmedy massacre - the brave, steadfast, honest-to-goodness reichdeutsche of course would never commit a war crime. Personally, I disagree with...

I too heard about Tychesen's Knight's Cross at the Max show. It apparently was sold by a private collector to a private collector for an exorbinant amount of money. The circumstances of Tychsen's death are shrouded in the "fog of war." American military historian Mark Bando has a chapter i...

Thomas V! So good of you to join the discussion. Didn’t you used to go by the handle "Standartenführer"? I couldn’t help but respond to a couple of phrases in your recent post. You seem to have a couple themes going: Nothing defines the validity of a person’s argument better than their age...