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Thank you ever so much for your help in suggesting books and other sources so far. I realise I have a lot to read.....

OMK

After a good search I'm unsuccessfull in finding any books describing the organisation of various levels of the army (i.e. how many men in a division, what equipment, what sub-groups, what level rank comanded the various sub-groups). Can anyone provide me with the name of a book (is such a book exis...

Fantastic project! (Kind of glad I don't have to do it though).

OMK

Just started on Stein's book. Got my copy from borders, so I guess it is available. Looking forward to continuing it.

OMK

Hi, Read Black Edelweiss a few months ago and enjoyed it. Only negative aspect of it was the relative shortness. Some points and reflections felt underdeveloped and could easily have been expanded on without the book losing any of its quality. (I do understand that someone wrote it and that that som...

A few jokes are always a good way of signing off after some serious browsing. I'm sure these are familiar to you all, but.. Around Christmas 1944 Berliners were advicing eachother to be practical with their gifts this year, give a coffin... Air raid shelters in Berlin were marked with L.S.R. (Luft S...

Might be a while before the United Arab Emirates gets a chance to vote on the Eu constitution......(Hehehe.....)

OMK

JWH, I agree with you: Muslims are capable of democracy. In fact, democracy has very little to do with religion and rather more to do with education. Oppressive regimes only work when the regime can keep people from education. One of my collegues is from Iran. She has no time for the "idiots in...

Hi Sid, Remarkably I knew that Britain does not have a constitution. How many Brits know? That point aside, there are a number of rules and regulations that, despite not forming a coherent constitution, performs the role of one. Not wanting to call Brits more stupid than Spaniards, neither do I thin...

Sid,

Lets face it. Most people are idiots! (members of this forum not included, naturally). In what country, if any. has the majority got a firm grip on and understanding of the constitution and other laws of the land?

OMK

Try Henry Metelmann "A Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Germany in the 1930s", ISBN 1862272522. (He is also the author of the follow up story "Through Hell for Hitler: A Dramatic First Hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front With the Wehrmacht"). I remember seeing a TV programme...

Hi Sid, I think I'm getting our difference. I will concur that anti-British sentiments did not drive thousands and thousands of people to join the SS. However, I'm interested in all the reasons people joined (as I'm sure you will agree, the number of reasons alone makes this a compelling and multifa...

Hi Sid, (First of all, I'm sorry, but i have not yet managed to get to the empire and commonwealth museum so I can't give a review of it) As I mentioned the group of people (who called themselves Ragnarok after a publication by the same name that they were responsible for) had a mix of feelings/sent...

Sorry for the time it took me to dig up some support for my previous claims that anti-british sentiments might have caused people from occupied nations to join the SS. Have just finished reading a biography on Per Imerslund (Norwegian author and adventurer who was instrumental in forming some of the...

Try http://www.uboat.net and search for him (I have found him on the page with picture)

OMK