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charlieboy wrote:a very brave lady may she r.i.p
micky

Here Here Valet.

We associate Hell with fire and burning heat but the Russian winter was in fact the complete opposite it was a freezing Hell.

Happy New Year Vets (who's left)
and to forum members 2010.

Soon there was another method of approach...Around the clock bombing 24/7.

Would the bombing of cities and township residential areas be a deliberate act? The answer is most probably Yes..........But to the bomber pilot this was just another mission that was ordered from high command and it was to be carried out regardlessly. The night pilot could see the houses through th...

The battle was raging, men lying,dying trying to survive by any means when there was a halt in shooting "The end of the war has come,finally we can go home"yelled out a soldier. "What is that sound,it sounds like music,someone singing"he said. This was Christmas eve Weihnachtaben...

What was the general feeling with the rest of the world when Hitler first rose to power?

Hi there,you can gather research from Feldgrau as there are many members with a wealth of knowledge and are only too happy to share it. Of course you will not find out everything you want as a lot of records and files were destroyed at the end of the war,but just keep looking you are on the right tr...

Your pa possibly served with my dad Panzer division 1941-1945.POW IN rUSSIA 1945-1947.my dad was from Niesse. so when you visit his grave to pay respect please pay some respect from me also
Cheers G B.

A comprehensive gallery with lots of photographs: http://www.veltmaete.nl/in-gleichem-schritt/ And: http://www.veltmaete.nl/in-gleichem-schritt-2/ These pictures are excellent and a credit to you Holtingar I have a DVD named Hitler Youth (probably banned in some countries) which I bought at a cheap...

Did Germany ever hold an inquiry into the HMAS Sydney v Kormoran incident?
If so,what were their findings?

An inquiry into the loss of HMAS Sydney in 1941 has found it's captain behaved inexplicably when he brought the warship too close to a German raider. In the naval equivalent of point blank range the disguised German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran engaged the Sydney and sank it off the West Australian co...

You are probably right when you say"one of the lucky ones" It would have been a shock to any prisoner of war to return to their home town (if it remained) For some maybe the idea of being shot was thought of as they discovered that the home town they had left had completely been destroyed....

I am looking for some info on a 19 year old german who was drafted into the German Army in 1941 He was in the Tank (Panzer) division so I would like to find out where he would have been assigned to? Having been captured by the Russians in 1945 would that mean that he was on Russian soil? Having been...

After the Soviets shifted the German/Polish border which was sanctioned by Churchill where did all the people go?
Where did the german soldier who gave everything for their country go when they suddenly found there was no "Home" to go back to?