The use of German tanks in Soviet army

http://wio.ru/tank/capt/capt.htm

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NKVD and the defence of Moscow 1941 (?!)

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol48no2/article12.html

Lubyanka in the Days of the Battle for Moscow: Materials from the Organs of State Security SSSR from the Central Archive FSB Russia

By V. S. Khristoforov, et al. Moscow: Izdatel'skii dom "Zvonnitsa-MG," 2002. 480 pages.

Reviewed by Benjamin B. Fischer

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In the period between 22nd June 1941 and 31st December 1944, the
" Totenkopf " division lost an astronomical number of men, a total of 53,794. No other division within Army Group South sustained such a disastrously high level of losses. " Wiking ", which was a professional and experienced division, suffered 11,098 losses.

Perry Pierik " Hungary 1944-45, the Forgotten Tragedy "

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During 1943 a schwarm of 1./JG 54 became the most successful formation of its type in the Luftwaffe; Hpt. Walter Nowotny (257 kills), Uzz Karl Schnörrer (46), Lt Anton Döbele (94) and Lt Rudolf Rademacher(126) amassed 500 air victories between them in 1943-1944.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JG_54

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The Soviet 131. Infantry division was being transferred to Petsamo since 21st December 1939 escorted by an ice breaker G Sedov. However the ice situation changed some 80 kilometers from Archangel, and the ships were stuck and G sedov alone could not help the situation. In order to get help messages were sent but no icebreakers were available until two weeks later. The 131st infantry dvision spent two weeks in the ships wearing summer clothing and had very little to eat. Once the division finally reached the front 30% of the troops were too weak to participate in the war because of the cold and hunger.

" Parade march to Finland " Stepakov-Orehov

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This is bizarre, I thought only German troops got cold in the winter.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

Winter War was excellent training for the Red Army and they used all the knowledge they got against Germans some two years later...

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Stalin´s organ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4oxGzUw4JQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFYo...elated&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3zn...elated&search=

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And what a nasty surprise this weapon was to the Germans and the rest of the world.

I believe that when the Germans first encountered this weapon, there was an immediate order given out by the German high command to capture one in tact.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

Russian airplanes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7eaFzEEqmI

Heres another one, not ww2 but still interesting.

Su-37

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9_PGJomVs

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

Epidemic jaundice and German army

The epidemic jaundice experiments, which took place at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler concentration camps, were instigated by the defendant Karl Brandt. A letter written in 1943 by Grawitz stresses the enormous military importance of developing an inoculation against epidemic jaundice, which had spread extensively in the Waffen SS and the German Army, particularly in southern Russia. In some companies, up to 60 percent casualties from epidemic jaundice had occurred....

Medical Case Opening Statement of the Prosecution Part 2. Nuremberg, December 1946

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Kai, i read most of this long thread, i was wondering if you could help me a little, im having trouble finding information on Russian/soviet anti-tank mines/grenades......mainly magnetic

so far this is one of my few leads, it is a Railway Mine, Type 158

http://www.ostfront.com/Merchant2/me...Category_Code=


I was hoping for some help? it seems you know your stuff when it comes to the OstFront

I could not much either. Pretty much all Russian mines (anti personnel and anti tank) were made of wood.

I did find a reference to a 'ezmine' used for anti tank purposes. I also found a reference to an small horned anti-tank magnetic mine with designation 'HM/S' used by the Finnish army. Perhaps Kai can elaborate on this.

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

I´ll try to see what I can do. I have the advantage that some info is probably in Finnish available ( if there is much?) so I can translate that. I´ll see tonight if there´s something I can do about it.

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thanks kai! its hard since most of the documents arent in english, but i have found some that were translated or from observations by Americans over there........but its like 2-3 documents.........

About tank mines, something at the end of the following site:

SOVIET TM 35 and TM 38 antitank-mines (Tankovaja Mina 35 / Tankovaja Mina 38): Finnish Army cleared huge number of these antitank-mines from Soviet minefields during Continuation War. Reportedly large number of the mines captured in this way were reused in Finnish minefields.

FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: LANDMINES PART 3

TM-38 mine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the magnetic mines must admit haven´t found anything as I was wondering last year what the Zimmerit was made for...perhaps there was no Red Army´s own magnetic AT mine (?).

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During the war the Soviet Union manufactured 18.3 million rifles and SMG`s , of which 6.1 million ( 34%) were sub-machine guns. In contrast, the Germans manufactured 11.6 million rifles and SMG´s, of which only 1.2 million ( 11%) were sub-machine guns.

From Red army 1941-45 by S Zaloga

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i have found that railway mine that could be used on vehicles......

the zimmerit was used cause the germans thought their enemies would use magnetic bombs/mines, which the british did, but the zimmerit didnt protect against sticky bombs which the brits and americans used........the germans used magnetic AT mines/bombs.......

Molotov Line

Molotov Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The so-called Molotov Line was a system of fortifications built by the Soviet Union in the years 1940-1941, along its new western border after it annexed the Baltic States, Eastern Poland and Bessarabia. This territorial expansion was the direct result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed on the Soviet side by Vyacheslav Molotov, hence the name Molotov Line.

The "road" to the gallery is also on the wikipedia page. Loads of pics.

Galeria

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