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Hello, I know there exists many controverse discussions about Paulus and his role as CO of the 6. Armee while the Stalingrad fiasco. My question is how could someone like Friedrich Paulus become commanding officier of the strongest German Armee. Remember he never commanded any larger formation until...

Hi,

Paulus refused to work with the sowjets and also with the NKDO ( National Komitee Deutscher Offiziere ) founded by Sydlitz, until 20. July 1944.

bye Enrico

Hi Matt, there existed indeed many diffrent camo patterns and even the same patterns came in diffrent materials and colours. Especialy in the late months of the war same units used a great number of diffrent patterns, styles ... If we have a look for example on the Grenadiers of 12. SS while the bat...

Hello Roger,

I'm impressed about your fast and excellent researches.

My best wishes and greets from Germany
Enrico

Hello, as far as I know were the 3. SS Pionier Battalion also parts of the untis wich were outside the pocket but I have no clear references where exactly they fight. All I know is, that Eicke mentioned that the remenants of Kampfgruppe Simon and the remenants of the Aufklärungs and Pionierbattalion...

Hello Helmut, it's true that the forces of the 3. SS 'Totenkopf' were split but not in two as widly known but in thre parts. Two parts within the pocket one Kampfgruppe Eicke and one the smaller one under the command of remenants of the 130. mot Infantry Division ( not totaly sure about the 130. ) T...

Hi, it's true BUT. If you choose as your profession to become an officer than it was forbitten by law to be in any party. This law was part of the Weimarer Gesetz and was never changed until the end of the war. I'm wondering that this point is widly not known and more not teached in school. So most ...

Hello, if he served in 5. SS 'Wiking' than he never fight next or in Stalingrad but in the Caucasus region. Also all the other SS Divisions didn't fight around or in Stalingrad. The first three SS Divisions were rebuilt into Panzergrenadier Divisions at that period of time and came back to russia in...

Hi, about the nightfighters we should not forget that their aircrafts were well equipped with the best of the best available at this time within the Luftwaffe. Radarsystems, 20mm, 30mm even 37mm automatic guns, Schleudersitz ... Their victims were in a very bad situation with almost no chance to sur...

Hello, we shouldn't forget that Wilhelm Bittrich's II. SS Panzer Koprs were in very bad condition at this time. The 9. & 10. SS Panzer Division managed the Falaise pocket but they lost a huge amount of troops and more important heavy equipment. While operation Marget Graden they were far away fr...

Hi, as you already mentioed your Grandfather had German roots but was not living within the German Reich so he was a so called Volksdeutscher ( German by blood ) and not Reichsdeutsch. All so called Volksdeutsche were recruited to units of the Waffen SS and not to the Wehrmacht. Many late war soldie...

Hi Guys, A slight diversion: Have you noticed that Guderian, Rommel and Manstein all had this in common: They were all approached in advance by the July Bomb Plotters but none had the moral courage either to back them or expose them. Operational genius and physical courage do not necessarily transl...

Hello,

could you send the english version via E-Mail ? I will try to do my best to translate it.

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Hello Sid, I think you are right. Manstein complained in his writings that it was sometimes a waste of men as well as material to split the less resources in men and material into diffrent branches ( Heer and Waffen SS ). In fact Manstein payed respect to senior SS officiers like Hausser, Bittrich, ...

Hi Marko,

thats exactly the fotos I saw in Weidingers book about 4. SS PzGren Regiment 'Der Führer' as well as in 'Bildband der Waffen SS'

I wish a nice weekend to all

bye Enrico