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Posted: 10/28/2010 5:10:26 PM EDT
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My wife's grandfather. He is the one on the left in the first pic. He was a waist gunner in the pacific.
 
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Posted: 10/28/2010 5:13:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/28/2010 5:19:52 PM EDT
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Does anyone else see pictures of German soldiers and feel pity for them? Especially those of the Eastern front? Um.....no. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 5:51:23 PM EDT
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My wife's grandfather. He is the one on the left in the first pic. He was a waist gunner in the pacific. http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img007-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img008-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img011-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img010-1.jpghttp://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img009-1.jpg Wow, great pics of the B-25's, they have the 50cal gun blisters on the sides! They played heck with ground attack, low level strafing, skip-bombing, even anti-shipping! Bet he had some stories! Were they Navy or Marine aircraft? They look to be two tone blue. Thanks for sharing. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:11:29 PM EDT
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These are from my stepfathers collection. He was a pilot in WW2 serving in the Pacific. He flew P61s in New Guinea, and P38s in the Phillipines. After the war, he flew P80s, F89s, F84s and the F86. Most of the Black and whites are New Guinea, and the color ones mostly are of F89s in Thule Greenland. He died a few years ago at 84. I miss him sorely.
I realize the Greenland ones arent WW2 but you dont see that plane or base very much and I thought they may be of interest. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:12:52 PM EDT
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Does anyone else see pictures of German soldiers and feel pity for them? Especially those of the Eastern front? Um.....no. Sorry but between the Russans and Germans for some reason I sometimes find myself pulling for the Germans. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:16:24 PM EDT
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Wow, some of those rare jet and helicopter pics from WWII!
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:25:27 PM EDT
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Quoted: I hope he did.My Dad fought in Europe against those guys in WWII. Maybe he took a few of them out. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:42:14 PM EDT
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Wow, some of those rare jet and helicopter pics from WWII! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See I get it! Thats funny because they didnt have those in WW2!! You are funny!!!!! Read the sentence at the bottom of the pics. RIF |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:45:58 PM EDT
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Does anyone else see pictures of German soldiers and feel pity for them? Especially those of the Eastern front? Um.....no. Well when I see German soldiers I see dead men, fighting a lost cause under an incompetent maniacal leader and on the eastern front, left to die. There is no happy ending for any of them. When I see American soldiers I see hope, victory and a chance to live a long happy life. When I see Russians I see commie peasants, whose best hope in life is drinking vodka and eventually death, their lives already suck. When I see Japanese I see fatalists. So yeah when I see germans I have pity for them. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:58:40 PM EDT
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Wow, some of those rare jet and helicopter pics from WWII! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See I get it! Thats funny because they didnt have those in WW2!! You are funny!!!!! Read the sentence at the bottom of the pics. RIF This is a pitcher thread. I just look at the pitchers. 
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Posted: 10/28/2010 6:59:19 PM EDT
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Borneo, 1945. The Matilda soldiered on until almost the end of the war, but in the Pacific for the Aussies. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:02:12 PM EDT
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Wow, some of those rare jet and helicopter pics from WWII! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See I get it! Thats funny because they didnt have those in WW2!! You are funny!!!!! Read the sentence at the bottom of the pics. RIF Ignore him... those were great pics and I think fit in well with the theme.... you should be very proud of him.... P-61's , Way cool and you rarely ever meet anyone who flew them.... |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:06:41 PM EDT
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I found this picture on a website uploaded by a Russian guy. The only context is Soviet woman.
Here's a few more! 
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:13:50 PM EDT
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I 've been partial to this one also.
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:26:15 PM EDT
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I 've been partial to this one also. http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq214/element-94/142.jpg Russian kids with captured German weaponry? Pretty cool. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:31:23 PM EDT
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Couple of pictures of my great uncle. he was with the 508th PIR in HQ1. He was wounded twice in Europe, First time he was wounded in the head on the way down in his chute, the second time he was wounded by P-51's strafing the line in the battle of the bulge. He was part of operation Market Garden. My brother has seeked out and met some of the met that fought with him, the story's are amazing! There are no records of it but one vet that was fighting with him stated that my great uncle climbed on a German tank and dropped a grenade into the hatch.
And...... These were given to my brother by the widow of a B-25 pilot who bailed out of his plane and survived, she said he later came back and cut some souvenirs out of the plane, the radiophone handset was one of them. His widow gave him a ton of stuff besides this, but she kept his chute. The M-1 didn't come from her however, I added that to the pile for the pic. The life jacket appears to be a post war jacket according to the date. neat nonetheless. 
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:31:23 PM EDT
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Awesome pictures! I wish I had been there. 
WWII Gives me a hard on. I wish I could have jumped with the 101st on all of their jumps. Or been a pilot. Or been involved with the OSS. Yeah war is cool until someone gets hurt....then your "hard on" should disappear pretty quick |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 7:41:25 PM EDT
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I 've been partial to this one also. http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq214/element-94/142.jpg Russian kids with captured German weaponry? Pretty cool. I know a gentleman who grew up in Russia immediately after the war. He said the UXO problem was incredible, and that mostly just the main streets of cities were cleared, with the rubble being left for years and years. They used to play "Red Army vs. Wermacht", except they used real guns
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:08:45 PM EDT
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It's my understanding the Marines carried the Springfield when they landed at Guadalcanal. When the US Army came in later on to help with the fight, the Marines grabbed any extra Garands they could get their hands on. I read somewhere that Marines preferred the 1903 at the start of the war, thinking the Garand was not as reliable. But then semi auto starts looking very attractive when a shitload of guys are running at you screaming. [/quote] My uncle who was a Marine and went through a number of invasions (and is still alive) told me this too. He also complained about the unreliability of our grenades. Said it was a crap shoot when you pulled the pin. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:10:14 PM EDT
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This picture is incredibly beautiful. French resistance, I'm guessing? The woman is attractive, of course, but everything else about it is outstanding. The people in the background, her expression... You get the feeling that under any other circumstances, you would never know how brave/strong/courageous she was. She'd just be a pretty girl. But then and there... I want to think that it's best if women never have to fight, but then again, perhaps there is something to be said for adversity. You have the urge to "save" her somehow, and yet, it's immediately clear that she doesn't need saving; she's already made the choice to be free. Again, that picture is outstanding. My guess is Russian militry, notice the "Burp gun," and clip bag, Fur hat with insignia pinned on front. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41 Some Marines got to sport one during Fallujah II  
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:17:08 PM EDT
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My Uncle in his tank, drove under Patton. http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/05cosmo/Tony3.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/05cosmo/Tony5.jpg The top one, the one with your uncle behind the 50 cal...umm...good looking man. If he's still with us, tell him I said so, please. Jane Thank you. No, he died about thirty years ago, he also fought in Korea in the infantry. Good man. Doing the math in my head, it sounds like he was taken early. My condolences. 
Jane Not so very early, for having fought in two tough wars. /keeping ti positive. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:20:55 PM EDT
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http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8777-9/anc.jpg SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. The man with two MG42s built into his armor plated desk. A true believer in the nazi cause. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:22:45 PM EDT
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Wow, some of those rare jet and helicopter pics from WWII! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See I get it! Thats funny because they didnt have those in WW2!! You are funny!!!!! Read the sentence at the bottom of the pics. RIF Don't bray so loud, the first helicopters and jets DID fly in WWII. Not those models, but not very much different. eta - the helicopter list is pretty extensive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopters_used_in_World_War_II |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:26:11 PM EDT
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http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8777-9/anc.jpg SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. The man with two MG42s built into his armor plated desk. A true believer in the nazi cause. Also a fine example of leadership and mindset. I guess we ought to take it where we can get it. |
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:28:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/28/2010 8:31:29 PM EDT
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I 've been partial to this one also. http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq214/element-94/142.jpg Russian kids with captured German weaponry? Pretty cool. I know a gentleman who grew up in Russia immediately after the war. He said the UXO problem was incredible, and that mostly just the main streets of cities were cleared, with the rubble being left for years and years. They used to play "Red Army vs. Wermacht", except they used real guns   
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Posted: 10/28/2010 9:53:00 PM EDT
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This is from the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets in 1956, seen it many times. Notice the armband on the guy/gal next to her. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 4:02:06 AM EDT
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My wife's grandfather. He is the one on the left in the first pic. He was a waist gunner in the pacific.
http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img008-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img011-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img010-1.jpghttp://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img009-1.jpg It is interesting how small people were just 70 years ago. I bet they averaged 140#'s or less. I wonder what today's soldiers average, 180#'s? |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 4:34:38 AM EDT
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http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8777-9/anc.jpg SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. The man with two MG42s built into his armor plated desk. A true believer in the nazi cause. Also a fine example of leadership and mindset. I guess we ought to take it where we can get it. Proof that leadership and mindset alone are insufficient to make a man great. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 5:51:56 AM EDT
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Quoted: This is from the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets in 1956, seen it many times. Notice the armband on the guy/gal next to her. Some REAL French female resistance fighters:      |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 6:15:56 AM EDT
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Above. that looks like the same girl in pic 1 and 3.
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Posted: 10/29/2010 8:36:45 AM EDT
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http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8777-9/anc.jpg SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. The man with two MG42s built into his armor plated desk. A true believer in the nazi cause. Also a fine example of leadership and mindset. I guess we ought to take it where we can get it. I have his biography, the author of which actually interviewed him personally in the 70s before he died. He actually didn't give two shits about Hitler and his big plan. He was trained as an engineer before the war and was far more interested the study and development of tactics as a means of coming up with unique solutions to problems. He pretty much invented the concept of Special Operations, and executed some of the most crazy daredevil operations that rivaled anything the British SAS. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 8:59:24 AM EDT
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I will be posting more later today
Everyone keep posting. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:20:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:23:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:38:05 AM EDT
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http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/8777-9/anc.jpg SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny. The man with two MG42s built into his armor plated desk. A true believer in the nazi cause. Also a fine example of leadership and mindset. I guess we ought to take it where we can get it. I have his biography, the author of which actually interviewed him personally in the 70s before he died. He actually didn't give two shits about Hitler and his big plan. He was trained as an engineer before the war and was far more interested the study and development of tactics as a means of coming up with unique solutions to problems. He pretty much invented the concept of Special Operations, and executed some of the most crazy daredevil operations that rivaled anything the British SAS. I dont think this is accurate. Skornzey wasn't anywhere near one the finest special ops raid in history-in fact he wasnt even a thought- check out the raid on eben emael... Oh and you know who conceived it? That nut job Hitler , and he tasked Kurt Student, the commander of the 7th Airborne to plan and execute it. So calling Skornzey a sort of father of spec. ops is typical of GD. His raids, did not even rival the raids his own country did several years prior. And his glider assault to rescue the fat bald one, was a pared down version of Eben Emael... |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:41:54 AM EDT
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My wife's grandfather. He is the one on the left in the first pic. He was a waist gunner in the pacific. http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img007-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img008-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img011-1.jpg http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img010-1.jpghttp://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp357/metalman3006/img009-1.jpg It is interesting how small people were just 70 years ago. I bet they averaged 140#'s or less. I wonder what today's soldiers average, 180#'s? If those men were aircrew....they were chosen partially for their smaller stature. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:46:14 AM EDT
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An officer that is not very well known anymore, but played a crucial role in the July 20 plot.
Generalmajor Otto-Ernst Remer As the commander of the only large combat formation in the capital during the July 20 Bomb Plot, Remer was able to play a large role in crushing the rebellious elements attempting to seize control of the government. After being ordered by one of his superiors (and a key member of the anti-Hitler forces) to arrest the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, Remer arrived at the ministry to be persuaded by Goebbels to telephone Hitler personally, who not only convinced Remer that he was not dead (as was claimed by the conspirators), but promoted Remer to Oberst on the spot and granted full authority to take aggressive action to crush the plot. Remer acted enthusiastically and efficiently, and by the evening of 20 July the revolt had been stopped and the key conspirators were dead or in custody. 
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Posted: 10/29/2010 9:52:55 AM EDT
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How'd that romp into, thru and past the Ukraine work out for ya? 6th Army is obliterated
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:06:59 AM EDT
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Friedrich Paulus in charge of the 6th Army at Stalingrad. On January 30, 1943, Hitler promoted to Paulus to field marshal. Hitler was hoping Paulus would commit suicide; instead, Paulus surrendered to the Red Army the following day. The last of the Germans surrendered on February 2. The battle for Stalingrad was over. More than 91,000 men were captured, 45,000 were evacuated by air, and 100,000 died during the siege. The German prisoners were forced marched into captivity. About 45,000 died during the march to the prisoner of war camps and only about 9,000 survived the war. Paulus was taken into custody and at first refused to cooperate with the Soviets. However, after he discovered that his friends, Erich Hoepner and Erwin von Witzleben, had been executed after the July Plot, he agreed to make anti-Nazi broadcasts. This included calls for German general officers to disobey Hitler's orders. As a result of these broadcasts Hitler ordered that Paulus' entire family should be imprisoned in a concentration camp. In 1946, Paulus appeared at Nuremberg as a witness for the prosecution. Although he admitted he had been guilty of a the attack on the Soviet Union, he refused to incriminate Alfred Jodl or Wilhelm Keitel. Paulus remained in a Soviet Union prison until being released in 1953. He settled in Dresden, East Germany, where he became ill from cerebral sclerosis. Friedrich Paulus died on February 1, 1957. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:12:55 AM EDT
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Awesome thread!
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:15:07 AM EDT
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Winter in the East.
Waffen SS... take a break in the Ukraine. 
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:25:32 AM EDT
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http://ww2-pictures.com/general-paulus.jpg Friedrich Paulus in charge of the 6th Army at Stalingrad. On January 30, 1943, Hitler promoted to Paulus to field marshal. Hitler was hoping Paulus would commit suicide; instead, Paulus surrendered to the Red Army the following day. The last of the Germans surrendered on February 2. The battle for Stalingrad was over. More than 91,000 men were captured, 45,000 were evacuated by air, and 100,000 died during the siege. The German prisoners were forced marched into captivity. About 45,000 died during the march to the prisoner of war camps and only about 9,000 survived the war. Paulus was taken into custody and at first refused to cooperate with the Soviets. However, after he discovered that his friends, Erich Hoepner and Erwin von Witzleben, had been executed after the July Plot, he agreed to make anti-Nazi broadcasts. This included calls for German general officers to disobey Hitler's orders. As a result of these broadcasts Hitler ordered that Paulus' entire family should be imprisoned in a concentration camp. In 1946, Paulus appeared at Nuremberg as a witness for the prosecution. Although he admitted he had been guilty of a the attack on the Soviet Union, he refused to incriminate Alfred Jodl or Wilhelm Keitel. Paulus remained in a Soviet Union prison until being released in 1953. He settled in Dresden, East Germany, where he became ill from cerebral sclerosis. Friedrich Paulus died on February 1, 1957. Enemy at the Gate is a sobering book. 250,000 German troops marched on Stalingrad and only 9,000 returned from the USSR. A few did escape during the siege, but it was minimal. |
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:32:00 AM EDT
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Enemy at the Gates still holds up today-I reread it recently....one can find it cheap-but you have to get past the fact that the cover is from the movie a few years back, with Jude law and Rachel Weitz, on the cover I believe. So thats kinda lame imho, but a great book
heres another one-guys swimming now that their, whatever you would call a boat, has been blown up, swimming the volga, probably in october, to enter the tractor and barikady factories and enter the fight-a bit different than the french in 1940 
see here is the french -outside Sedan 1940-tanks are bailed not destroyed 
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:32:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/29/2010 10:39:13 AM EDT
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Pre war SS on a protective detail. The guy on the left is a member of the "Oberbayern" regiment which would later be one of the regiments that made up the Totenkopf Division .
1 May 1937, Max Simon became Commander of I./SS-Totenkopf-Standarte 1 "Oberbayern." Max Simon is in the first row, middle. 
Max Simon went on to command the SS-Panzer Grenadier Division "Totenkopf" in Russia, 1942-1943. 1944, he became the Commander of 16th SS-Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer-SS" in Italy and Hungary. From October 1944 May 1945: Commanding General, XIII SS-Army Corps on the Western and Southwestern Fronts. 
# A veteran of the pre-war concentration camp system, Max Simon's name became linked to war crimes as early as 1943. In November of that year, a Russian military tribunal sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged role in the killing of 10,000 Russian civilians in the vicinity of Kharkov in the summer of 1943. # After the war, the British indicted Simon as a war criminal for his complicity in the September 1944 massacre of Italian civilians at Marzabotta (estimates ranged from 300 to over 2,000 dead) in reprisal for partisan activity. Following his interrogation in the United Kingdom, Simon returned to Italy where a British military tribunal sentenced him to death. The sentence however was later commuted, and Simon was released in 1954 from Werl prison in Germany. # In October 1955, a German court in Ansbach tried Simon for an incident that occurred in the German town of Brettheim on 7 April 1945. On that date, Simon ordered the courts martial and hanging of three citizens of the town who had disarmed some local Hitler Youth members to keep them from fighting U.S. troops. Twice acquitted of the charge (the court ruled he had been following a legal order), Simon died before the start of a third trial. |
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