Given the name and the proximity in time, I think a double is almost impossible. I rather assume that the sparse information in the Volksbund...
He was born 09.January 1926 in Attenkirchen a. d. Amper/Bavaria This can be interpolated from information provided by the War Graves Commission...
The Waffen-SS was the politically indoctrinated house force of the NSDAP and was intended as a counterweight to the Prussian-dominated Wehrmacht....
When I was a Panzergrenadier back in ´86, we were told that our life expectancy in contact with the enemy was estimated 15 to 30 minutes and that...
Yes, because we haven't had an army worthy of the name any more. (Finland and Poland together have more operational Leopard tanks than we do)....
In a nutshell: The uniform of the General SS between 1929 and 1932 was still strongly oriented on that of the SA. This was to show everyone that...
German Panzerfaust vs. Russian tanks.....this has certain historical parallels. Only this time we seem to be on the side of "the good...
Seems to be the SS "traditional suit", worn from 1925 to 1935. Brown shirt and black "breeches" were the mainstays of this service suit. Since no...
Most likely an SA gathering (dark pants, bright shirts) Could be a larger event (limousine, number of standards, band in the background) But that...
MTG's real main problem is obviously that he confuses the right to his own opinion with the right to his own facts. That he makes no distinction...
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Perhaps a few socio-political backgrounds on this. I have tried to keep the summary as concise as possible. Any errors in the content are...
sigh... This little thought experiment, after all, takes place under the assumed premise that FDR knew about the attack beforehand and...
Well, at least I have learned more about the background of the attack here in the few weeks through the numerous responses to the nonsense of MTG...
What never ceases to amaze me is the fact that absolutely NOBODY in the CT department ever thought that if the time of the attack was known, Pearl...
According to Japanese historians, such as Iwasaki Akira, it was more likely that Japan in the early Showa period looked to Prussia and especially...
National Socialism was a genuine patchwork ideology. They almost didn't invent anything themselves, but blithely stole everything together in...
This information has not yet filtered through to the Bundeswehr in 1987/88: I myself was allowed to practice anti-aircraft defense on such a...
Hallo Alex The world is a village - and the Internet the broom chamber :D
Do should be very careful with such sentences: Japan is also called the land of the rising sun. Knowing MTG as I do, he sees this as further...
