How To Be A Forum Hero!

[Freiritter]

Hello,

To flesh out Dietrich a bit more:

A professional soldier, Dietrich tries to ignore political nonsense as much as the situation permits. Politics just interferes with good soldiering as he sees it. Being a former enlisted man himself, he can put himself in his soldiers' feet, so he doesn't fit the old stiff-necked Junker mold. ( It helps that he's a Hessian. ) Also, he takes care of his men and is known as a kind and good officer who looks out for the men under his command.

This kind streak is bolstered by the fact that he never asks a man to do something that he can't or won't himself. Three years on the Ostfront makes sure that he's done a great many things. Also, he picked up a taste for vodka and has a colorful vocabulary that includes Russian.

His decorations and badges:

Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, Wound Badge in Silver, Close Combat Bar, War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords, Eastern Campaign Medal, Kuban Campaign Shield and Tank Destruction Badge.

The War Merit Cross he earned for meritorious service in the Caucasus Campaign in 1942 as an excellent company commander and the tank destruction badge was earned for his destroying a T-34 in the Kursk battle. His company was advancing on a village. That village was defended by a T-34 with an infantry platoon. Since the T-34 prevented his company from safely flanking the Soviets, he snuck up on it through the village and knocked it out with a hand grenade.

To clarify about the EK2 action, his command group was pinned down and wounded by some infantry guarding the 85mm gun. Wounded himself, Dietrich crawled around to the flank of the infantry, grenaded them, finished them off with his MP40 and then proceeded to do the same to the gun crew. Sorry about the addition, I forgot in my rush to get the initial bio done.

Transferred to the Western Front in late 1944 for the Ardennes Offensive, Dietrich was last seen in April 1945 in southern Germany engaged in rearguard actions against the Americans.

Cordially,

Freiritter

[kordts]

David,
my alter-ego is Kordts, the war weary landser from Russ Schnieder's great novel, "Siege." However, you can make me a Volga German who is Russified enough to be drafted by the Red Army. How about Alexi Kordts? Then his family was deported with the rest of the village to Siberia. So now he is ambivilent about the war. He is disgusted by the German brutality (SS) as well as the harshness of the Red discipline (NKVD) and what happened to his family. Can speak German as well as Russian. Just wants the war over, but knows his life is forever changed, and will he have a home to return to?


Peace out,

Kordts

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Hi Kordts, okay, but not much happens on the Russian side in this particular story. I would be tempted to use Kordts, with a different first name, as a Landser in this story because much will happen to the Germans, they're about to be on the receving end of a Red Army offensive.
What do you think?

Best Regards,
David

[kordts]

David,
"all the world's a stage and we are merely players." I don't know if Geddy Lee or W. Shakespeare gets the props on that one. What I am saying is that Kordts is yours to do with as will. In the book he is disgruntled, sarcastic, and clumsy. Yet he is a good soldier. He's kinda fatalistic now, because of the dreaded "Dear Johann" letter. Kordts real name is August, his friends call him Gus.


Peace out,

Kordts

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Hi Kordts, I was just trying to figure out the best use for your character and I didn't want to dissappoint you by promising to use him as a Russian when I didn't have a significant Russian plot going on. Sometimes my Russian characters get more play than the Germans, but lately the German characters have interested me so much (mainly because of the excellent bios provided by the contributors) that I've enjoyed following them more in this story.
So, Okay, Gus Kordts, excellent. I'm going to take a day's break or so--I've done a lot of writing in the past two days and I'm getting a bit bleary. But everyone seems to be in place for the next part, Gus will be easy to work in.

Be Well and Best Regards,
David

[Tom Houlihan]

Okay Reb, but there's no way I'm using the name "Reb" in the story (no offense!)

Well, Georgia is in southern Russia!

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Yeah Tom, but I don't think they use "Reb" the same way we do. But Rebski worked, I thought!!

Bestens,
David

[kordts]

David,
I must congratulate you on your effort and imagination. You really are creating a labor of love, and taking all of us on the along for the ride. I am glad that you are using your superhuman powers for good and not evil. Keep at it, and I hope this turns into a novel or script and you can make some money of your WWII jones!

Peace out,

Kordts

[Kucirek]

If there's still time to turn up at the recruitment office, I would like to join up as

Leutnant Hans Adler, an ardent nazi, whose deepfelt regret that he couldn't join the SS because of a flawed lineage was only abated when he was accepted into the Panzerwaffe. The son of a rightwing extremist, who joined the Stahlhelm after participating in World War I, Leutnant Adler showed an early hatred towards socialism. Despite trying to appear cultivated and act gentleman-like, the hot-headed young officer has a tendency to fly into erratic eruptions of beerhall agitation that reveals his lower middle class origin.

Although his officer manners appear mecanic and unnatural, the blond and fair officer proudly displays his smart black uniform with unfailing strictness.

Leutnant Adler is the commander of a Tiger tank.

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Yeah, sure, why not? In fact, you can accompany Beppo on his little ride South. Welcome aboard Leutenant Adler!!!!!

The more ardent Nazis I have in one place the better......

Best,
~D, the EviL

[Rosselsprung]

Well, Commisar, as you said you wanted to speculate, I'll give you something to speculate about!

After falling on hard times, Serena only wrote to Rosselsprung as he is the only person left in the world who might have any real love for her. Currently, she is the mistress of Carlo Giovanna, a young, fiery militia leader in the RSI. She secretly hates him, and thinks of him as an insensitive brute. Her only reason to be with him is that he offers some protection for her in the chaos of Italy after the armistice. Every morning she waits in vain for the kindly old postman to bring a letter from Rosselsprung, only to hear the words, "Sorry, nothing today". She fears he's been killed or maimed, and has been waiting to hear from him for months. Occasionally, she contemplates blasting Carlo's brains out as he sleeps in bed with his own pistol and fleeing to liberated Italy.

Enough to speculate with?

Rosselsprung

[Commissar D, the Evil]

Well Rosselsprung, I kind of like Sirena as the heartless type, but she is your character. Of course, much of this depends on Major Rosselsprung's alleged future.......

Best Regards,
David

[Rosselsprung]

She is heartless! She's planning to kill her boyfriend(not to mention she's being selfish in simply being with him) in his sleep! Make her as heartless as you can........

As for the future, well, that depends on skill as a panzer commander and the skill of Dr.'s Prit and Krollspell in patching me up.....

[Nibelung]

C'mon Rosselsprung, you are no god to tell how your Forum Hero life is going to look like! Just sit back and relax while reading your adventures...that makes life so interesting - to be thrown back and forth while trying to pull the longer straw.



best,
Nibelung

[Tom Houlihan]

Miha has a point. Even if you die off in this story, you can always come back as your younger brother/cousin/nephew Obergefreiter Rosselsprung!

Old Forum Heroes never die,
They just smell that way!!