A poster showing the Richthoffen brothers in flight gear next to an aircraft.

To General Heinrici's disgust, the leaders of the various military branches tried to outbid eachother, in the name of sending reinforcements to the defense of the Oder-Berlin Sector.

Name the three leaders
Name their military branches
and how many men each had promised to send to Berlin.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Win what?

Anyway, I knew that Great Admiral Dönitz promised and did sent 5.000 sailors to defend Berlin, but have no idea of who were the other ones? General Wenck? Von Greim? I don't know...

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Hi Friedrich: Read the first sentence in the above posting--thats the prize this time.

Good guess but--your off by thousands of prmoised reinforcements.

The "key" words are: "Leaders of the various military branches"

Come try again. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
10,000

Goebbels
Volkstrum
10,000

Donitz (sorry Friedrich)
kriegsmarine
5,000

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Hi PzJgr--you got warmer on one of the guesses, but still off by a few thousand and wrong leader and wrong branch. You got two leaders names correct though. Also add a zero to one of the correct ones and that part will be correct.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Arrrgghhhh! I know the info but it is at home. Greeoowww! But I'm looking

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and we have plent of time Ill be away for a few hrs but will be here most of the afternoon--till about 6pm TX time.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Cool. I will definitely have the answer by then. Hehe

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And ill be back here by 3 pm to make sure you have the answer. I'm off to go pick up our resident Sarge for lunch.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Dammit, I'm in the same boat as PzJgr- I just read "The Final Battle", I clearly remember reading this part of the book. Too bad I can't remember it clearly!

Donitz, kriegsmarine, 50,000

Goering, luftwaffe, 10,000

Himmler, volksturm/hitler youth, 50,000

hey, I tried...

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Seriously, all today is missing is free cotton candy and the annual Bay State Hooker Parade to make it any better.

This is just a [i]wild guess,{/i]
but might the answer be:

Goring (Luftwaffe): 100,000 men
Donitz (Navy): 12,000 men
Himmler (SS): 25,000 men

Respectfully submitted,
--KT

At this same meeting, Hitler and Major-General Buhle were also able to contribute a further 13,000 men for Heinrici.

I thought that Heinrici was also trying to get more men for Buhle in order to hold the Russians back? Didn't Buhle report to Heinrici?

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PzJgr:
I was a little vague.
Hitler offered the 13,000 figure after consulting with Buhle.
The Fall of Berlin, Read and Fisher, 1992. see page 286.

Yes that is correct. Buhle did not offer the 13,000, Hitler came up with the figure after a conversation with Buhle.

BTW, the numbers you gave were correct.

Hermann Goring
Luftwaffe
100,000

Heinrich Himmler
Waffen SS
25,000

Karl Donitz
Kriegsmarine
12,000

Good guess. Man, if I only had my book. The Last Battle p271 for both of the above

[ 18 September 2002, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: PzJgr ]

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Great guesses Crazy but, not yet correct.

Knight--the poster is yours--send me a message w/ your address and it will be in the mail.

Maybe next quiz PzJgr! I have to decide what to next part with.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Congrats, Knight!

Well, I hope that the next one will be a WSS one, so my friend PzJgr will be able to win!

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

I dont even know what the next one will be--but COULD be an SS one. We'll just have to wait and see when the next quiz with prize will be. Im liquidating items I no longer want for one reason or another. I dont have many im doing away with but, some that I am parting with are decent prizes.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

This is good. I am being forced to learn German military history. Bring on the next question.

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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. General Douglas Macarthur

I wouldnt look at it as being forced into learning but--just making learning a bit more fun I dont know exactly when ill post a question #3 but I will try to do so in a decent amount of time. Reason being is, that I dont have easy access to the items I wish to part with (they reside in a friends safe) and we meet only about once a month.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Fielen Dank meine freund Friedrich! Maybe next time. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Quite welcome my friend. I just thought of something I could use for prize and contest number #3--just give me time to think of a good question. Ill possibly post it this afternoon.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.