" At the end of January 1945, the majority of the regiments of the Leibstandarte collected in the area between Bonn and Siegburg. The Supreme Command of the Army planned to transfer the recently relieved 6. Panzerarmee to Hungary. In order to camouflage this transfer, all of the Divisions of the 6. Panzerarmee had to take off their cuff-titles and remove the tactical markings from their vehicles. For that they received other harmless markings. After the load up, the Leibstandarte was called the "replacement squadron Totenkopf".

From " Chronicle of the 7. panzer-Kompanie I.SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte" by Ralf Tiemann

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August 1943:

In a related development, RFSS Himmler informs 2nd SS CO Walter Krüger that his daughter cannot marry Oberführer Fritz Klingenberg - because SS research into Krüger's wife's family has uncovered a full-blooded Jewess from 1711...

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On 19 April 1944, JV 44 attacked some B-26s, and Eduard Schallmoser, known as “The Rammer” for his penchant for ramming bombers with his jet (Me 262) once his ammunition ran out, had clipped one of the damaged B-26s, and then had to bail out…again, only to land in the garden of his parent’s home outside of Munich!

From Osprey´s German fighter pilot aces by Morgan and Weal

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Considering how much Hitler had trust in von Manstein in later war it´s weird that he hated the man back in 1940.

" Feb 1940: Schmundt spoke to Hitler about what Manstein had said and the Führer became more interested despite his personal aversion to Manstein which he is unable to hide. "The man is not to my liking, but he knows something about how to get things done." "

From " At the heart of the Reich" by Major Gerhard Engel ( Hitler´s army adjutant 1938-1943 )

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" On 3 July 1939 Hitler was treated to the infamous "magic show" at the Rechlin air proving ground- including jet fighters, rocket planes and large airborne cannon- all, supposedly,within months of entering production. Then, in the third week of August, when Hitler was preoccupied with the coming war, Koppenberg and Ernst Udet, chief of the technical office at the RLM, coaxed him into signing a Führer order restoring the Ju 88 programme to top priority. The consequences were dramatic. For the rest of the war, the Luftwaffe was to claim at least 40% of the German armaments effort."

"The wages of destruction" by Tooze

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"The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl. The tune gave its name to a Cockney dance first made popular in 1937

A member of the Nazi Party achieved attention in 1939 by declaring the Lambeth Walk (which was becoming popular in Berlin) to be "Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping" as part of a speech on how the "revolution of private life" was one of the next big tasks of National Socialism in Germany.

In 1942, Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information made a short propaganda film, Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style, which edited existing footage of Hitler and German soldiers (taken from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will) to make it appear they were marching and dancing to "The Lambeth Walk". The film so enraged Joseph Goebbels that reportedly he ran out of the screening room kicking chairs and screaming profanities. The propaganda film was distributed uncredited to newsreel companies, who would supply their own narration.

The Lambeth Walk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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At least once Hitler did not have "total knowledge" on production facts and figures:

Anecdote about Galland and Speer being dressed down by Hitler, who orders all fighter aircraft production cancelled and the material used for Flak cannon production. As soon as Speer and Galland are alone, Speer turns to Galland and says: "Dont worry, you cannot make a cannon out of aluminum. When the Führer calms down I will explain this to him and tell him to increase Flak production out of Locomotive production."

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About nazi Germany in autumn 1939:

" The shortage of building steel was such that by the end of 1939, 300 infantry battalions were without proper barracks or garages. Germany´s army had grown so large it could be accommodated only under canvas. By July 1939 there were cuts even to the army´s weapons programmes. The original plan for 1939-40 had called for the production of 61,000 Model 34 machine guns, but after he reduction in the army´s steel contingent this target was reduced to only 13,000. Similarly, targets for the 10.5 cm light field Howitzer were cut from 840 to 460. Production of the standard infantry carbine 98k was to cease altogether from the autumn of 1939. Perhaps most dramatically in light of later events, the tank programme,which aimed for the production of 1,200 medium battle tanks and command vehicles between October 1939 and October 1940, was now to be cut in half. In total, 34 of Germany´s wartime force of 105 divisions would be seriously under-equipped. Of the replacement units responsible for training new recruits, only 10 percent would have any weapons at all. Furthermore, specialist armaments manufacturers would be forced to cut more than 100,000 skilled workers from their rolls. The ammunition stockpiles of the Wehrmacht were sufficient to cover only fourteen days of heavy fighting."

From "Wages of destruction" by Tooze

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Maybe not the right place, but here goes:

The best snipers the Germans have during WWII were actually woman. Apparently woman are much more accurate than men.
One of our witnesses, Mrs. Monica Tovey lives in South-West England. During WWII she was living in the Swindon Aerea. At the age of 15 she got engaged tue an American Paratrooper (101st Airborne Div, 502 PIR). He jumped into Normandy and was shot and killed by a female sniper. she found this out years later.

Thierry Cornet

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Tour Manager - Beyond Band of Brothers

I wonder about that, there are records that the Soviets made use of females in that role, but there are none in the "best" list from Germany. Wouldn't top scoring be related to "best"? Not saying her story in untrue, just wonder at the "best" designation.

While this site is devoted to "top snipers", it goes all the way down to nine (9) kills for a Canadian, but I see no females in the list from the German side at all.

See:

Snipers

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Happy Trails,
Clint.