Agreed, not to mention logistical limitations. German logistic capabilities for drive on Moscow were insuficient even in october yet alone in...
Generally speaking it was a mistake, but in reality lands beyond Dnepr-Dvina line were in intelligence sense a true terra incognita for the...
Haha thanks Smiley.
Thank you for your interest. I agree, I would also love to read more interesting stories. I started this thread with a funny story but of course...
This story isn't funny but it's most unusual and appropriate for this time of the year. During one of the harshest periods of war in the east,...
It doesn't mean peasants are backward, but that country was largely agricultural and lacked broader industrial base. Also level of literacy and...
Everything seems legit, magnetic test is positive and there are three seperate layers. Thanks again!
Thanks Skipper!
I doubt that soviet theoreticians had by their world view contempt for peasants, not to mention that would be heretical and highly dangerous...
Thank you both.
It was said on on several occasions that either Germans would either win in several weeks or not at all. I believe that is incorrect from multiple...
Oh come on.. Sure strategical and prolonged operational movement of the armies was provided by trains, but tactical and very often operational...
In my country as well things were done pretty much openly. The sinagogh 15 meters from the main square was immediately destroyed, Jews were...
I would very much appreciate if someone could give me some info about a german cross I stumbled on a antiques market. Cross measures 44 mm...
Yes, they were something in between, a bit lighter than standard BS of that time, but significantly faster than any of them.
I'll just add few disgraceful examples of facultative bearing of western courts toward the worst of the worst. Hermann Reinecke, man personally...
I found it in Alan Clarks 'Barbarossa the Russian - German conflict 1941-1945'
IMO battle cruisers are most beautiful ships. They make optimal ratio between elegance and grace of cruisers and toughness and self confidence of...
I had such a good laugh when I stumbled on this conversation, that I had to share it with people who would appreciate it. The following...
I just don't buy german post war propaganda that only SS was doing the crimes and others were completely innocent and knew nothing or very little....
