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August edition of DER FREIWILLIGE had an article which stated that the town where the monument is located had given the HIAG a deadline for removing the monument . I wonder if this act of vandalism could, in any way, be related. If the town owned the property on which the monument was placed, then ...

Tom - you're definitely onto something here. There's no question that many of the leading personalities of the W-SS - Dietrich, Hausser, Steiner, Eicke, Gottlob Berger, Karl Wolff, Jüttner, Fegelein et. al. all played their share of power politics within the SS organization and the larger Third Reic...

Hello everyone, Then why did Hitler not persuade and invite Rommel to leave the Wehrmacht and lead and command the Waffen-SS instead of Paul Hausser and Felix Steiner. Why would Rommel, who had an abundance of professional military ability but a relative lack of National Socialist zeal, want to join...

...Dietrich, Hausser or Steiner were active in that field. All three are (in my opinion) at least on equal terms with Rommel How exactly is "Sepp" Dietrich - a former warrant officer who was better known for his front-line charisma than his skills as a strategist or tactician (or map-read...

Hi Helmut, In one case a former WSS man was denied a touristvisa in the 1990's so he could visit has son in Los Angeles. the man was in his 80's and I'm sure presented no threat to our national security . But then we turn around and give visas to the 9-11 terrorists almost a year after they did the ...

Hi Gerhard - My condolences regarding your computer trouble. I wanted to point out that most self-replicating viruses nowadays, including the recent "So.Big" virus will often "spoof" sender email addresses - in other words, insert a random email address into the "from" ...

There WAS a report indicating that the church in question was used by the resistance for storage of gasoline (petrol), explosives, and ammo Then name it - give author, data, book title, microfilm roll, etc. But most reports about Oradour - Phillip Vickers, Max Hastings and Sarah Farmer's books spri...

Hello all - nice to see that's everyone back rested and refreshed from their summer holidays and eager to continue the debate on the longest running feldgrau forum topic in history ;) As before, let's wait till the FACTS come out. If there were nothing to hide, why seal the records? Haen, I'd like t...

More books added:

"Mountain Troops of the Waffen-SS"

"Loyalty is My Honor"

Plus a couple more to be posted in a day or so.

thanks for your support!

-- Rob

i mean the waffen-ss were the ultimate elite unit often winning over forces 2 to 3 times their size

I dunno W-SS Robert; it's hard to see battles such as Kursk, the Korsun Pocket, Budapest, Normandy, the Ardennes, Nordwind and Spring Awakening as "wins" for the W-SS.

BTW Johann Voss, the author of "Black Edelweiss" will be signing books at the Max show Sept 11-13.

If you can't make the show, Aberjona Press is having a special deal on books and book plates signed by the author. All the details are at

http://www.aberjonapress.com/max2003/

- R

FYI for all you folks who are going to be at the Max: " ...Now, for the first, and probably only time, the author of Black Edelweiss has agreed to travel to the United States from Germany to participate in a book signing. He will be at the Aberjona Press booth at the upcoming Military Antiques ...

Hey Tom - if you're going to the Max show in PA, you can ask W-SS veteran Johann Voss your question in person! http://www.aberjonapress.com/max2003/ Voss is a veteran of the 6th SS Division "Nord". Aberjona Press published his memoirs ("Black Edelweiss") last year. His book goes ...

Just to get everyone up to speed on the ACC

http://www.regiments.org/milhist/uk/corps/ACC.htm

http://accassociation.org/

They have a march song titled "Sugar and Spice!"

Thanks Sid for the insightful response. Here's my contribution to get the thread back on track WRT Soviets Guard units & Budapest : Nations will often used the same military terminology to describe quite different units - e.g. the word "regiment" in the British Army context describes a...