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Manstein’s [Backhand] Counterattack 1943

Germany Operations Soviet 7 Min Read

German Panzer IV tanks at Kharkov, 1943. German armored personnel carrier advancing through the Sumskaya street of Kharkov, March 1943. OREL-BRIANSK OFFENSIVE OPERATION (FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 23, 1943) At the head of a redesignated Army Group South in February 1943, Manstein broke into the Soviet flank when Joseph Stalin pressed the Stavka into an overextended reach for a line along the…

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Col. David Glantz – Red Army before Warsaw 1944

SS-Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck (Panther’s cupola), commander of 8./SS-Panzerregiment 5 of the Wiking Division, and a Sd.Kfz. 251/3 Ausf. D, during the battles east of Warsaw, August 1944. Between August 18-22, IV.SS-Panzer-Korps, comprising the Totenkopf and the Wiking Division, destroyed 98 Soviet tanks destroyed in the battles around Warsaw. Soviet (1st…

Germany Naval Warship 14 Min Read

Graf Zeppelin I

Plans for a shipped-based air force started soon after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. The first plans were limited to supplying the existing battleships and cruisers with reconnaissance seaplanes. On March 12th 1934 the first requirements the future aircraft carrier was given. Within a year the design study had been…

Air Warfare Germany Naval Warship 13 Min Read

Graf Zeppelin II

Last photograph of Graf Zeppelin towed from Swinocijscie Poland to Leningrad. April 17. 1947. In April 1945, Soviet troops found the carrier’s artillery had been dismantled, the installation of fire control equipment had not been finished and the electrical installations partially installed as well as the flight equipment. There was…

Germany Weapons 10 Min Read

Hitler’s Saw

MG-34 MG-42 The MG-42 was designed during World War II as a replacement for the multipurpose MG-34, which was less than suitable for wartime mass production and was also somewhat sensitive to fouling and mud. It was manufactured in great numbers by companies like Grossfuss, Mauser-Werke, Gustloff-Werke, Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and several…

Germany History 20 Min Read

‘Valkyrie’- 20 July 1944 Part I

1. Office and barracks of Hitler’s bodyguard 2. RSD command centre 3. Emergency generator 4. Bunker 5. Office of Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s press secretary 6. Conference room, site 20 July 1944 assassination attempt 7. RSD command post 8. Guest bunker and air-raid shelter 9. RSD command post 10. Secretariat under…

Germany History 21 Min Read

‘Valkyrie’ – 20 July 1944 Part II

1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9. Col Nikolaus von Below 10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss 11. Otto Günsche, Hitler’s adjutant 12.…

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Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Dora

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German Transport System WWII

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Flak towers: then and now

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