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History 18 Min Read

NEW BRITAIN – 1st Marine Division

Excellent view of the New Britain invasion and seven landing ships. Marines hit three feet of rough water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain. December 26, 1943 U.S. and Japanese movements in western New Britain during late 1943 and early 1944. During…

Biography 13 Min Read

William E. Colby

William E. Colby (1920–1996) former CIA director, Colby was thought to have damaged the CIA’s reputation by cooperating with congressional investigations and disclosing information many felt should have remained covered, in order to pacify critics of the agency. William E. Colby was the most controversial director of the Central Intelligence…

Air Warfare 11 Min Read

Aerial Dogfights

Definition: Aerial battles between two or more aircraft. Significance: Since World War I, air-to-air combat and the establishment of air superiority has been one of the most crucial components of success in modern warfare. History World War I. By the beginning of World War I in August, 1914, many military…

PoW 13 Min Read

Soviet Prisoners of War

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Biography 10 Min Read

Count Alfred von Schlieffen

ischlie001p1 A uniformed man was ushered into the room. It was an exclusive gathering of turn-of-the-century, Berlin high society. The feathered ladies, wives of top officials from the Foreign Ministry and Reich Chancellery, were dressed as if they expected the kaiser to appear. The men were attired formally and stiffly,…

Germany History Poland Waffen-SS 19 Min Read

THE DESTRUCTION OF POLAND II

Guderian’s potent army Guderian now had four mechanised divisions under his direct command: the 3rd and 4th Panzer Divisions and the 2nd and 20th Motorised Divisions. It was an extremely potent force, made more effective because Bock allowed Guderian a free hand both tactically and logistically. As it was not…

German Units Waffen-SS 23 Min Read

‘The Most Ruthless Force?’ Reassessing the role of the Waffen SS 1933-45. Part IV

SS-men of SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger IV. ‘Normal Soldiers’? It has been suggested that as it expanded in the latter years of the war the Waffen SS grew to become more like the army that it fought beside. During the second half of the war, every third SS General and every fifth…

Operations Volkssturm 5 Min Read

Volkssturm Casualties

For a variety of reasons, German personnel losses are hard to determine with any precision. Few of these cobbled-together units kept any records of losses, German graves registration had largely ceased to exist, and sympathetic civilians buried some of those killed. To gain a sense of the intensity of the…

PoW SS Waffen-SS 21 Min Read

Book Review: Propaganda und Terror in Weißrußland 1941-1944: Die deutsche “geistige” Kriegsführung gegen Zivilbevölkerung und Partisanen.

Babette Quinkert. Propaganda und Terror in Weißrußland 1941-1944: Die deutsche “geistige” Kriegsführung gegen Zivilbevölkerung und Partisanen. Krieg in der Geschichte. Paderborn: Schöningh Paderborn, 2008. 420 pp. EUR 58.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-506-76596-3. Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University)Published on H-German (March, 2010)Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher Nazi Germany’s Battle for…

PoW SS 15 Min Read

1942- One Last Opportunity: The German Experience with Indigenous Security Forces

Bronislav Kaminski, leader of the RONA. by Major Bob E. Willis Jr. U.S. Army   The German Army had one last opportunity in 1942 to recover from its failure to secure the occupied areas and pre-empt the massive expansion of the partisan war to an uncontrollable scale. A number of…