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by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:54 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Arthur "Bomber " Harris.....
Replies: 169
Views: 65383

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PS: I don't want to shove down ones throat one viewpoint or the other... But if you think about it that the propaganda WWII started much earlier then 1939 and Guernica was made to such a symbol of german maliciousness...why not hear the other side for once too? Especially as Adolf Galland never was...
by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:30 am
Forum: Soldatenheim
Topic: Battle of Britain movie (1969)
Replies: 26
Views: 16640

Re: Battle of Britain movie (1969)

I think we will never see a war movie of this magnitude anymore.... Oh I dunno - depends on how much money a studio wants to plow into a production. There are more restored Spitfires flying now than in 1969, for example - I think they gathered over 50 at Duxford the year before last from all corner...
by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:39 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: Translation of Karteikarte (scan attached)
Replies: 3
Views: 33128

Translation of Karteikarte (scan attached)

Hi I'm trying to understand the Karteikarte for a deceased relative, but I only understand some of terms (Name, Vorname, geb. am, Truppenteil, Dienstgrad and Rangdienstalter) because some of the letters use the old script:
by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:35 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: help finding my nanna's 1st husband
Replies: 7
Views: 6151

Re: help finding my nanna's 1st husband

After a kind person helped me with translation Its been narrowed down to Helmut Köllner was a driver of a semi-tracked armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251 in 5th Co. of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 6 as regimental part of 7th Tank Division (during the war in the West 1940 the CiC of this Division was...
by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:31 am
Forum: Veterans and vet info
Topic: Help in Locating unit of German Veteran
Replies: 2
Views: 5342

Re: Help in Locating unit of German Veteran

You can try: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Navigation/Use/Using-specific-types/Military-Records/military-records-en.html From there a link takes you to: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/EN/Content/Artikel/Artikel-ausserhalb-der-Navigation/Hinweise-milit-Unterlagen-persbez/benutzen-hinweise-militaerische...
by Soldat7128
Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:29 am
Forum: Translation Requests
Topic: Nachschub versus Versorgung units
Replies: 9
Views: 8879

Re: Nachschub versus Versorgung units

Hi all, I am in the process of using Google translate to understand the unit listings in Mueller-Hillebrand's "Das Heer". Have run across several unit descriptions that appear to translate the same but I'm sure are different meanings. Can anyone explain the difference between a Nachschub ...
by Soldat7128
Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:52 am
Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
Topic: Guderian vs. Hitler
Replies: 4
Views: 6691

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I don't know of any SS General talking back to Hitler to his face, but Sepp Dietrich and Felix Steiner disobeyed his direct orders to spare their men, and Wilhelm Bittrich told Rommel after Normandy: "We are being so badly led from above that I can no longer carry out senseless orders. I have ...
by Soldat7128
Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:54 pm
Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
Topic: Discriminatory policy towards practicing Catholics?
Replies: 0
Views: 2547

Discriminatory policy towards practicing Catholics?

My mother once told me a story about her older brother (who eventually died [as far as we know] on the Eastern Front); apparently he was dissatisfied with not being promoted from private to corporal, and once on leave from Russia (going back to Lower Saxony) he got off the train in Berlin and went t...
by Soldat7128
Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:04 am
Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
Topic: Was Demjanjuk really in SS?
Replies: 2
Views: 2778

Re: Was Demjanjuk really in SS?

ok thanks for the response.

i guess the complexity in terms of the current case lies in part with how voluntary his 1) original "volunteering" to the Hiwis was, and 2) his promotion to "active SS" was…
by Soldat7128
Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:19 am
Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
Topic: Was Demjanjuk really in SS?
Replies: 2
Views: 2778

Was Demjanjuk really in SS?

I'm noticing the recent appearance of stories about John Demjanjuk in the news again, and I'm wondering how he could have been in the SS? I mean, he was supposedly a Soviet POW (of Ukrainian origin) who "volunteered" for service under the Germans in order to avoid dying in a POW camp. But ...
by Soldat7128
Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:38 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors
Replies: 7
Views: 7947

Re: Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors

Thanks---I saw the drawing but not the photo (got a 403 Forbidden error).
by Soldat7128
Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:56 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors
Replies: 7
Views: 7947

Re: Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors

Ehh, how do I view the picture? tia
by Soldat7128
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:30 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors
Replies: 7
Views: 7947

Pictures of underbellies of Me-262 airfield protectors

I read that the underbellies of prop fighters assigned to guard the airfields at which Me-262s landed and took off were painted bright red with white stripes in order to avoid being shot down by the flak batteries stationed there...does anyone have or know of a picture of one they can post (preferab...