I am reading The German War and it is excellent! It is a bit detailed for some readers but I just skimmed over some that were too long. I had...
Good stories! I loved the weatherman joke! LOL
That's the first I ever heard of him. You learn something new every day!
I read a book, "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers." by Bryan Mark Rigg which tells about the Jewish men who served in the German military in WWII. Many...
Not only that, but if an individual was for civil rights for African-Americans and was friends with them, Immediatley they were put on Hoover's...
I should have given some background to the story. Eksteins and his family were DP's who were finally accepted by Canada. He is a professor at...
Just finished an excellent book, "Walking Since Daybreak" by Modris Eksteins who was a child when the Russians and the Germans took turns invading...
Just an addendum - Paulus wasn't a VON.
The author does say in the Notes that "All figures for casualties in the fighting on the Eastern front in the Second World War, and even for the...
I just started reading this book by Rodric Braithwaite and in the first chapter I was flabbergasted to read, "The Soviet Union lost more people in...
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That and "With the Old Breed at Pelieu and Okinawa" by E. B. Sledge are the two best memoirs of WWII that I've ever read. I recommend them highly.
Weren't the surviving Russian partisans arrested and sent to the Gulag after the war? Supposedly because they were traitors or something like...
I clicked on the video and got the message, "This video doesn't exist"!
It's amazing that anybody survived that blockade. After the Battle of Stalingrad, people who had lived through it emerged from cellars and caves....
Good question, I wondered that, too. I've read lots of books about WWII but I've never seen that subject covered. I did read that the last of...
Hitler also got the idea of sterilizing "undesirable" folks from the US where it was common practice to sterilize "feeble-minded" people in the...
Hi, I'm a retired woman who has been interested in WWI and WWII for many years. I get books out of my local library every week on the subject. I...
Thanks for the correction. I thought Paulus was a "von" also.
Thank you, Gebirgsjaeger.