Just wondered what our distinguished members and friends have in the way of thoughts on this subject. Given that..... The trade war with China...
Very Latin....long dark hair and not too tall. I have been thinking about your above comments concerning the Italian military. Maybe their...
The Seven Days was all very well, proably the most important campaign in the Eastern Theater. But up until the Seven Days, the news for the South...
Something I read long ago.... "The German soldiers, as they stood on the banks of the Volga, must have wondered what exactly had brought them...
I don't like to bring up a fiction author, but the post above reminded me of reading novels by Sven Hassel, Sven used to write of situations in...
another thing...... 13 ditchings, and every one of them due to "lack of fuel"? Correct me if Im wrong but wasn't a bomber gassed up with a full...
his crew members must have been roundly sick and tired of ditching in the Channel or North Sea. I can just hear them now "Really? Not again Sir!"...
one wonders whether the Soviets kept similar records and whether they are available for the public. I do not imagine "blocking detachments" of...
Hessler…...maybe you can answer as a man that knows a little more than most about the Italian military. What in Santa Maria's name happened to...
Americans are my heroes......no denying it..... Anyhow, that documentary is Canadian produced, out of Ontario. Rebecca Wittmann is the one...
of the convictions, 85% related to events ranging from 1933-39....nothing to do with the Holocaust as such. Interesting to note that Rebecca...
The change in the prosecutable numbers of people was explained like this.... If Demyanuk could describe his job at the Ford Motor works, he would...
My source is as stated above. !00,000+ investigations Over 6,200 people brought to trial. 124 convictions resulting in a . Look,, Netflix is an...
When I read "Hitler Willing Executioners" a while back, it was made very clear to me that anybody involved at any level in an Einsatzgruppe merely...
Its also interesting to look at some of the excuses put forth in the "not guilty" pleas. Apologies that my information is not more complete......
Lets see.... If you want a war picture with a difference, Nick Nolte in "Under Fire" is a gem. for adventure, I always liked the Christopher...
Demjanuk case actually did set a legalmprecedent in Germany, saying that support persons at death camps that bhad no blood on their hands couild...
BENJAMIN FERENCZ:(Chief Prosecutor, War Crimes Investigator (The very first, he believes) …………………...……....(Einsatzgruppen Trials, Nuremburg,...
another indicator of the state of mind of Karl Doenitz is the placement of anti-aircraft guns onto all U-boats with orders to "fight it out" when...
oh...and speaking of submarine losses... I don't have any figures, but I remember reading that submarine crew fatalities in ww2 Germany were...