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Dear Jason: "4 M.G." is probadly the number of the company to which he was assigned. German infantry battalions normally had 4 companies. The Number 4 Company was usually a heavy weapons or machine gun company. It was almost always part of the I Battalion. Hope that helps. Sincerely, Dr. S...

After leaving the 27th Panzer Div. in late 1942, Helmut Michalik was assigned to the staff of Army Group North. (He had been promoted to colonel on Aug. 1, 1941.) He remained here until the summer of 1944, when he was earmarked for the command of another panzer division and was transferred to Army G...

All in all, Rise and Fall is still the primer for any student of Nazi Germany. It should, however, be used with some caution by anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of WW II and the Third Reich. For instance, it is dated. Shirer wrote most of it in the early to mid-1950s. (He did not sell it unt...

Dear Bruno:

Thank you very much for recommending this most interesting and informative site.

Sincerely,
Sandy Mitcham

Yes, it was the same General von Tippelskirch. He was, for a relatively short time, attached to the French Armistice Commission.

Lt. Col. Gunther von Kluge, the son of the field marshal, was relieved of his duties in September, 1944, and was apparently never reemployed. Does anyone have any information about him after Sept., 1944? Any info of a personal nature (family, children, political views, date and place of death, etc.)...