They sometimes failed (especially late in their history). But indeed very rarely and only when charging against vastly overwhelming enemy odds or...
And also many confuse German history with history of Prussia (which is just one of many German states and happened to dominate them all at some...
As you wish. They did not teach about Katyn at schools at that time (at least they didn't teach that Soviets did it - if anything, they said that...
Ups, the image of "Skarpa" blokhauz somehow disappeared... I was trying to find that photo, but I found another interesting photo (POWs from a...
Superior technological and also numerical (as can be seen from the map I posted - BTW I plan to create similar situation maps for each day of the...
The Polish problem was not "cavalry charging tanks" but unfinished concentration of forces (my map below = 1 September, early morning): [ATTACH]...
I wonder why German minority in Czech Republic did not emigrate to Germany after 1918 - like most of German minority in Western Poland did. For...
Yet on 3 September 1939 countries from all continents except of Antarctica declared war on Germany. So it became a "World" war yet on 3 September...
Sorry? What?! :eek:: Axis History Forum • View topic - German invasion of Denmark In the link above you can find for example descriptions...
It seems that Germans did not value the defensive plan of the Czechs too much: Von Rundstedt in May of 1939 tried to predict what defensive...
Maybe easier land connection to Kaliningrad Oblast ??? If you write about 1945 of course.
Does anyone know how long was the Polish Campaign expected to last by Germans before they actually invaded? I don't know about existence of any...
On the other hand, Poles had experiences from the 1939 campaign with slow & obsolete, but very maneuverable fighter aircrafts (PZL P-11 and P-7)....
Polish 303rd squadron was the most efficient squadron flying on Hurricanes and one of the most efficient of all squadrons in the battle of...
Before that - in 1918 and 1919 - the Soviets invaded Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland and were defeated: Soviet westward offensive of 1918...
Some characteristics of combats of Wielkopolska (Greater Polish) and Podolska (Podolian) Cavalry Brigades which were parts of Army "Poznan" in...
The translation (subtitles) is unfortunately not of best quality. ======================== And here a pretty similar BBC / PBS documentary:...
"Parade of Victors" ("Defilada Zwycięzców") - a Polish documentary movie (+ English subtitles): A lot of accounts of people who remember the...
But this includes Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe as well. "My" data included only Heer. This also includes only Heer (dead/missing): Eastern Front:...
Statistics for Heer (the Army ground forces of the Wehrmacht) only: Heer losses by year of war (1st year = IX 1939 to VIII 1940, 2nd year = IX...
