How about the SD ? Or was that treated as a seperate entity all together ?
I believe that Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (Head of Abwehr : German Intelligence) was a close friend of Rommel's and he was also implicated and...
Yes I saw that Mel Gibson had bought the rights to the original. If King Kong is anything to go by then we should be in for a treat.
I would replace EinsatzGruppen with the SD because the SD was an important part of Reich Security. Walter Schellenberg was the orchestrator of the...
Yes. They were made up of Police Units mainly. They would systematically route out undesirable (by the Reich) people and dispose of them....
Triumph of the Will was basically a showpiece for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Leni Reifenstahl was popular with the Nazis. It was of course a...
Until he was assassinated, Reinhard Heydrich's SicherheistDeinst (Sp?) or SD Security Police (Walter Schellenberg) and the Waffen SS fighting...
Case Blue was the German Offensive starting on 28th June 1942 to cut off and surround Soviet Armies in the Don Bend, capture vital oil supplies in...
[img] Russian Yak 3 Fighter, used to great effect against the Luftwaffe during the Stalingrad Battle. [img] IL-2 Stormovik Ground...
[img] Field Marshall Freidrich von Paulus. He surrendered to the Russians on 31st January 1943, just 2 days after attaining the rank. Hitler...
[img] Some of the 91,000 German & Romanian Prisoners taken at the end of fighting on 2nd February 1943. Only about 6,000 would ever return to...
Status Operation Uranus was the Russian Counter-Attack at Stalingrad from 19th - 30th November 1942. As Friedrich von Paulus's 6th Army were...
A view across the Volga River from the East Bank in Stalingrad. [img]
The DUKW was designed by Rod Stephens Jr of Sparkman & Stephens Inc. (Yacht Designers), Dennis Puleston, a British Deep Water Sailor & Frank W....
Here's a wikipedia article about Unit 731 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit 731. There was also a very good program about it on History Channel...
The Gato's would prove to be the downfall of Japan in a big way really.They sank a good percentage of the Japanese Merchant Fleet.
I think it depends on your point of view. Personally I think the Japanese were worried about the status of the emperor after the end of...
No aircraft in history made a greater contribution to aviation technology than the B-29 Superfortress, which thrust boldly forward in structure,...
No other invention in WW2 is credited with more decisive results in improving weapon accuracy than the VT Fuze. Invented by the British in 1940...
Italian Arms & accomplishments in WW2 have often been derided. This is sometimes unfair, and the S.M.79 achieved a record in action that speaks...
