The Great Inca Rebellion – The Siege of Cuzco II
Manco Inca and other 3 soldiers with Spanish weapons during the rebellion. The beleaguered Spaniards now decided that their immediate survival depended on the recapture of the fortress on the cliff above them. According to Murua, Manco’s relative and rival Pascac, who had sided with the Spaniards, gave advice about the plan of attack. It was decided that Juan Pizarro…
Louis XV (1710-1774)
The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, showing Maurice de Saxe presenting the captured British and Dutch prisoners and colours to Louis XV and the dauphin. Battle of Lawfeld, 2 July 1747: Louis XV pointing out the village of Lawfeld to Maurice de Saxe King of France When Louis XIV died in 1715, his great-grandson and heir Louis XV was…
VILLERS-BOCAGE
The exploits of Germany’s top panzer ace. Michael Wittmann. Michael Wittmann was soon to become the most famous Tiger…
Japanese Radar, 1943-1944 I
10 cm mark 2 model 2 – Japanese Radar for Warships Japanese surface units were being equipped during these years…
Royal Navy Aviation in The Final Months of WWI
HMS Argus in November 1918, while preparing for the planned attack on the German High Sea Fleet in its harbours,…
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Rewriting history
ROA Armour cheered by citizens of Prague Prague’s World War II commemorations, as usual, all but left out a band of heroes who saved the city By Stephen WeeksFor The Prague PostMay 19, 2005 “Good progress, this year” said a colleague at Czech TV who had been monitoring the Czech…
Social Scientists and War Criminals
Martin Oppenheimer [from New Politics, vol. 6, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 23, Summer 1997] Martin Oppenheimer teaches sociology at Rutgers University. THE 49TH CORPS OF THE GERMAN ARMY REACHED THE CAUCASUS and took the city of Mikoyan Shakhar in August, 1942. Professor Nicholas Poppe, a member of the…
OSTTRUPPEN BOOK REVIEW
Houterman, J. N. Eastern Troops in Zeeland, The Netherlands, 1943-1945: Hitler’s Osttruppen in the West. Bayside, NY: Axis Europa, 1997. ISBN 1-891227-00-9101 pages Publisher’s Forward ; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; maps; photos; tables; Glossary; Comparative Rank & Casualty Tables; Selected Sources. Appendices: Command Staff of the Eastern Legions – Turk Battalions;…
RUSSIAN NATIONALS IN GERMAN SERVICE
It is truly ironic that the most numerous units of foreign nationals raised by the Germans during World War II came from among the “sub-human” Slavs of the Soviet Union. Faced with waging war in a country of vast distances and infested with enemy partisans, the Germans had no choice…
Article: Answering Vlasov’s Call: Memory and Slovene Perceptions of the Osttruppen, 1945
Gregor Kranjc Using archival evidence, this article reveals atrocities committed by the Varjag regiment, a nominal part of General Vlasov’s anti-communist Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, in Slovenia in the final months of World War II. The fact that the Varjag unit mistreated a civilian population…
FILM: Vlasov: General for Two Devils
Germany, 1995, b&w/Color, 59 minutes, English commentary and subtitles. Patriot or traitor? More than one-half century after his execution, General Andrei Vlasov remains one of World War II’s most controversial figures. A brilliant Soviet commander, Vlasov was captured by the German Wehrmacht in July, 1942, and soon became central to…
Vlasov -The End
In and around Prague the Germans were rather weak. Their forces consisted mostly of S.S. troops with some heavy tanks but no artillery. But of course the Czech forces were badly equipped too. The heaviest fighting took place in the outskirts of the city where the Germans were opposed by…
Collaboration with Nazi Germany – The Soviet Union
Many inhabitants of the eastern portions of the Soviet Union, such as the Baltic States and Ukraine, openly welcomed the German army as their liberator and collaborated fully with it, until they discovered that German occupation policies were even more repressive than Soviet rule had been. In 1943 alone, as…
Warsaw Uprising – Wola 1944 Order of Battle
The map of 200 places, where Germans murdered 50 thousand dwellers of the district of Wola during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Soldiers from Kolegium “A” of Kedyw on Stawki Street in Wola district – Warsaw Uprising 1944. A German strike was delivered from the direction of the Wola district on…
Ukraine and Nationalism WWII
INTERWAR UKRAINE The Ukrainian territories under Bolshevik control had been constituted as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1922 became a founding member of the Soviet Union. Although it possessed all the structures and symbols of an independent state, Soviet Ukraine was effectively governed from Moscow. During the early…