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I had myself a very close encounter with such "relics". Years ago i was an organisator of christian youth summer camps, and we made a walking trip in the Westerwald (a big forest and place of a few WW2 battles). Some of the younger kids ran through the woods near the walking tracks the all...

Hello Edward, sorry i can't give you a clear answer, but i have some infos that might help you. The Wilhelm Gustloff was used as a residence-ship in gotenhafen by the Kriegsmarine from 1942 to january 1945. So it might be that the survivors of U-77 came to gotenhafen for regeneration and lived on th...

The attack at Eben-Emael is well-known and i think there are some books about in english too. If you are able to understand german, here is a good recherched chronology of it. http://www.koelner-luftfahrt.de/ebenemael.htm There are also some pictures, showing the fort and the german soldiers involve...

In WW2 the germans had lots of specialized Pioniertruppen, for example Sturmpioniere (Assault engineer), Eisenbahnpioniere (Railway engineer) and the Luftlandepioniere (air assault engineer). I'm not familar with reenactment, but i think you might search something like the Sturmpioniere/Luftlandepio...

Hi all. I need some help identifying this soldier. I only know it was taken around 1943-1944.
I'm thankful for any information, depending on person, unit or whatever.

Hi! Some germans might laugh, but the translation is computer. Sure no thing we would define today as a computer ;) It was part of a sea-ready aiming system for the 2cm flak, especially for ships. The complete term is "Vorhaltewinkel-Rechendose". The first part describes it's function. The...

Hi everyone! I joined this board a few days ago, when i was searching information about WW2 veterans on the net. My interest in WW2 started early in school, mostly because it takes a very big part of the historical education in german schools. My newerly grown interest depends on my grandfather who ...