Or.... Consider the possible effects of shifting the Germans surrounding Leningrad South to participate in the battle at/around Stalingrad and...
Indeed! Especially ironic is that volunteers from these very same areas were later welcomed into the Waffen-SS when the tide had turned against...
There was a program on the TV station called "The History Channel" which showed films of where most of the stuff apparently ended up. It was...
Well, Otto old boy, that's your British Empire for you... There was an old American TV or film series called "Victory At Sea", in which Britain in...
Not after the Einsatzgruppen showed up... Before that I believe especially the Ukranians and Georgians welcomed the end of Bolshevik rule, since...
I've also red this theory, which was supposedly another reason that Hitler would not allow the surrender of Sixth army. It appears that the...
Wasn't the Dieppe operation also an attempt to sieze components of the German coastal air defence radar statione nearby? I may be confusing this...
Don't see how Staligrad's fall could affect Leningrad. Crazy Ivan would presumably still have counterattacked in droves at Stalingrad, so no...
I don't see Finland fighting an aggressive war against Russia. They only fought in thr first place because of the Russian invasion. The regaining...
Well.... There was all that mumbo-jumbo nazi ritual shirtless nightime torchlight deep-in-the-woods marching and beating your chest Aryan superman...
Infantry tunics would have been a sort of tan, presumably what some genius felt was similar to the terrain in North Africa. Tankers, sadly,...
On land the best overall has to be Rommel. Did any of the aforementioned do nearly as much with as little to work with? Scratch all the Russians,...
The greatest tragedy by far was that Hitler was not killed by one of the attempts made on his life prior to... at the very least Operation...
I was under the impression from previous reading that the Wermacht actually based a portion of its infantry tactics on the presence of the MG...
I think the actual island of Midway was almost meaningless compard to the significance of the battle which bears its name... The point isn't that...
By 1942, the decisions which lost Germany the war had almost all already been made... A war without forseeable was in progress with Russia.... The...
The relationship could never have lasted... Consider: Two megalomaniacs at the helms of two totalitarian systems professing to be diametrically...
One of the only ways I feel it would've been so much as remotely possible was the unlikely event that Germany had built an almost entirely...
What rationale did Hitler give for bombing London.... At some point tactics shifted from focusing on the enemy's military capacity to undermining...
Considering the number of volunteers who fought against the Russians even after the ungentle ministrations of the nazi einsatzgruppen, I'd say...