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I don't know why I bother, but I've got a couple of minutes free... Hitler had legitimate and valid reasons for pursuing victory at Stalingrad. Hitler's genius lay in targetting an intangible, but valid, military target: the morale — to wit, the fighting spirt — of the Red Army. Yes, what a genius i...

Hmm, i didn't know that! Who can shed some light on this matter i wonder?

A simple example would be Wittmans stand at Village Bocage.........but then this is one of the very highlighted episode....there have to be more like this....especially on the Russian front Not the example i would have chosen! Apart from the fact that none of the other tank crews or infantry involv...

Navigation is not simple. According to the documentary I was there — the Blitz, London was so black due to light curfews that 20% of the population eventually incurred some kind of accident related injury. Flying over blacked out London would not be the cake walk you imply. Correct, night navigatio...

From what i've seen of Lancasters up close, it would not be possible to access the bomb bay from inside the aircraft. The bay was a long shallow one compared to say, a B17, and apart from an inspection window for the bomb aimer, looks to be enclosed from access from inside the plane. It would also b...

Sid No first hand evidence that I've read. Alan Clark speaks of T-SS fighting in a frenzy - all too aware of Ivan's prediliction for shooting out of hand anyone wearing the deathshead on their collar. (rough quote to spare me walking upstairs to the lib :wink: ) There are others but none that ever ...

Europe's Islamist-Leftist Alliance By Adrian Morgan FamilySecurityMatters.org | May 1, 2007 In 2004, David Horowitz published Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, a seminal work based on the author's 50-year experience of the American Left. Since the book was written, the links bet...

I didn't write this, it's an article from a newspaper... THE world remembers him as a strutting demagogue who held millions in his thrall as he plunged mankind into unparalleled bar-barity. But an amazing find in a German archive now sheds new light on Adolf Hitler as a trench- fighter in the First...

Well I believe Luftwaffe pilots called crash landings 'A piano out of the fifth floor window' (Ein Klavier aus dem fünften Stockfenster heraus).

Let's have a look at some real facts regarding the night of 24/25th August 1940. 1. Bomb damage was recorded in several places in London that night. The areas affected were firstly: East Ham, West Ham, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Hackney, Leyton, Walthamstow, Edmonton, Islington and Bloomsbury. These a...

You've failed to point out that there was another country that also had a non-aggression pact with Russia - Germany. Why shouldn't the Japanese sign a similar pact with the Russians? Additionally, Sorge was hardly in a position to 'pressure' Japan into doing anything. The man was an undercover agen...

Reminds me of the story that a former Bundeswehr soldier told me about his Sergeant putting a donkey on a charge for refusing the obey orders. I doubt if the donkey pictured would be to happy about mounting a suicide mission against allied armour!

So given that there were Totenkopf units incorporated into Das Reich, would they have still worn their death's head collar patches?

You've failed to point out that there was another country that also had a non-aggression pact with Russia - Germany. Why shouldn't the Japanese sign a similar pact with the Russians? Additionally, Sorge was hardly in a position to 'pressure' Japan into doing anything. The man was an undercover agent...

The RAF had begun attacks on German soil in May 1940 and prior to Berlin had raided (amongst others) Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Hannover and Kiel. If Hitler and Goering were (so we are to believe) goaded into attacking British cities then they had plenty of reason to do so prior to any raid on Berlin.