Helmut Von Moltke

Hoch und Deutschmeister? I rememebr reading that Regiment was annihilated in Stalingrad. Are there any good sites, books, etc on this then? thanks. K

Intresting, thanks for sharing. However were Eks readily available in German East Africa? K

R.I.P Bush never should have gotten into the Iraq mess. It's costing the US Army bad now unfortunately. K

There is more information on the Soviet dogs with mines in the first chapter or so of "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor, about Barbarossa and the Winterschalct Im Osten. K

Ingsco, remember the excellent thread with the pics on this back at the MCF? For those intrested, there are tons of these pics on this other thread http://www.militariacollecting.com/index.p...c=22815&hl= K

hi Gordon, about the medals, did the government issue them or did the veterans had to go to some special government shop to purchase them? thanks, K

about the Graf Zeppelin, I remember someone said on the Feldgrau forum that it was causing enviromental problems through rusting, etc. Not too sure though. K

The Kursk Waffen-SS photo series is very expensive, mind you. Better to spend your money on a research work. But, it is avaialbe at the author's website www.rzm.com. K

thanks Ingsoc! I originally had those but lost the files so thanks for posting !

a detail of Kenneth Berry from a picture already posted here. a POW photo of Albert Stokes, an Australian BFC soldier. Robert Chipcase, who left the BFC after a few days. Kevin

hi Cameron, yes, the Freies Arabien. source: Google search cheers, Kevin

yes, I was wondering about that one. The top soldier has a bit of middle Eastern features, or maybe Mediterranean ones. The same goes for the second soldier, the one in the Luftwaffe uniform. For the third one you mentioned, it is likely to be a black German from the Rhineland, born during the French occupation to African Colonial troops and German women, in 1923 in the Rhineland, considering he has a German wife (? not sure) in the pic, they would not be able to marry after 1935, so it's before. The mixed blacks from the Rhineland were sterilised by the NS regime, but some escpaed this by joining the Wehrmacht, so the picture is probably one of them. just my guess. Kevin

here you are! source: the Militaria collecting forum cheers Kevin

hi everyone. where did you get that writing on Wittmann. or did you write it? And Ingosc, thanks for that pic, it is in a cool large format, even though I saw it before. Here is more detailed information on Wittmann, his reccomendation by Sepp Dietrich. source : Armour battles of the Waffen SS, by Wili Fry. SUBMISSION FOR THE AWARDING OF THE OAK LEAVES WITH SWORDS TO THE KNIGHT'S CROSS. (Awarded on June 22nd, 1944, as the 71st soldier) Generalkommando I. SS Panzerkorps Battle command post, June 13, 1944 Leibstandarte SS Obersturmfuhrer Wittmann received orders on June 13 to secure the left flank of the Korps near Villers Bocage. It was to be expected that English tank forces that had broken through would advance to the south and southeast. Wittmann arrived at the exact time as ordered with six Panzer VIs. During the night of June 12 to 13, 1944, extremly heavy artillery fire forced Wittmann's company to change positions three times. In the early morning hours the company stood at Point 213 north of Villers Bocage with five Panzer VIs ready for action. At 8. AM a sentry reported to SS Obersturmfuhrer Wittmann that a strong column of enemy tanks was marching on the road Caen Villers Bocage. Wittmann, sitting in cover 200 metres south of the road with his Tiger, recognized an English tank unit followed by an English armoured carrier battalion. The situation required the fastest possible action. Wittmann did not have time to issue orders to his men in the distant positions. Instead, he pushed immediately, firing on the move, with his Panzer into the English column. This quick action initiall broke up the enemy column. Wittmann destroyed four Sherman tanks from eighty metres, then moved his Tiger into and parallel to the column at ten to thirty meters, firing in the direction of the march. He was able, in a very short time period, to knock out fifteen heavy enemy tanks. Another six tanks were hit, and their crews forced to bail out. The accompanying battalion in armoued cars was almost completely destroyed. The other four Panzers of the Wittmann company, following behind, took some 230 prisoners. Wittmann pushed ahead, while well in front of his company, into the town of Villers Bocage. In the center of town his Panzer he was immobilised by heavy enemy Pak. Despite this, he destroyed all vehicles within reach and routed the enemy unit. Thereafter, Wittmann and his crew bailed out and made their way on foot some fifteen kilometeres to the north to the Panzer - Lehr Division. There he reported to the Ia, turned around with fiftenn Panzer IVs of the Panzer - Lehr Division, and pushed again towards Villers Bocage. He was able to reach the 1. Company, deployed along the main road to Villers Bocage, in his Schwimmwagen, which had since been brought forward again. Based on his knowledge of the battle and the situation, he used the company to attack the nemy who was still in the town with tanks and Paks. By his determined actions with his Panzer, Wittmann single handedly destroyed th enemy, the English 22nd Armoured Brigade, which was already well to the rear of our own front. His immediate decision, carried out with greatest personal valor, averted a critical danger to the whole of the front of the I. SS Panzerkorps. At that time, the Korps did not have any other reserves available. With the count of today, Wittmann has achieved a total number of victories over 138 enemy tanks and 132 enemy Paks with his Panzer. Signed: Dietrich SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Panzer general of the Waffen SS

thanks Ingsoc, intresting pictures and propaganda documents.

thats quite a big collection, well done!

hi, I got them from a Dutch site on the Dutch volunteers of the Waffen SS, CLICK btw, was the pic of the Landstorm Nederland soldiers taken in 1943? Since at that time the Landstorm wore Feldgrau but were not part of the Waffen SS yet, just curious. cheers, Kevin.

the drawing posted on this thread's cufftitle is fake, the real cufftitle said "British Free Corps" instead. The article by Mr Jason Pipes on the Feldgrau German aremd forces research site is the best on the web so far, members intrested in this obscure unit should check it out. It's here CLICK cheers, hope this helps, Kevin.

btw, I forgot to mention. The Landstorm Nederland cufftitle was somewhat rare, and the SS runes insignia was introduced when the unit became part of the Waffen SS. Some volunteers in the division, veterans of the Eastern front, even still had cufftitles like "General Seffyardt", etc.

hi, what sources did you use for that article? I hope it was not plagarised from the Dutch site waffenss.nl. Many spelling mistakes in that article...and you forgot to mention, after the surrender of the Landstorm Nederland, it marched into captivity at the town of Harskampf or something like that. I remember a veteran of the Landstorm, HaEn, said that his commanding officer said that it was probably the march into captivity that the Dutch Waffen SS would be together, so the Landstorm marched into captivity with heads high. And when some unfriendly crowd started jeering them, HaEn recalled that the commanding officer order "ein lied", the order for a marching song and the troops then sang "Westerwaldlied", and then the jeering crowd gave up, to harrass the next column. Hope this adds to the thread well. cheers, Kevin. here are a few pictures of the Landsotrm marching head high into captivity, and their internment at Harskampf. at the internmnet POW camp the insignias were removed.

hi, there are many pics of Asiatic and Indian Wehrmacht volunteers at that site CLICK cheers, Kevin

is that a postcard or something? Since it is not a personal photo, if it was it would be worth a lot of money as it shows Rommel. And not rare, that photo I have seen in other books before.

nice tunic, how much did it cost, and where did you find it?

hi, I have the atographs of the Estonian RK holder Harald Nugiseks, Ernst Barkmann, Rudolf Von Ribbentrop, and the Heer Panzer ace Otto Carius, but I don't have a scanner, sorry. But nice collection there Mark!