Among the highest ranking German soldiers of World War II were particularly well-known and popular , the “Desert Fox” General Marshal Erwin Rommel, and the “Hero of Narvik,” Generaloberst Eduard Dietl. It’s not just their above-average popularity that these two men had in common. Rather, it is not difficult to draw more similar parallels with… Read more »
In the German War of 1866 came to 5,500 fallen soldiers (officers, NCOs and crews) one dead General. 1870 / 71- in the Franco-German war the ratio was 1 to 5,900. In World War I, 1548 Generals of the Reichswehr and Admirals of the Imperial Navy did not experience the war. A dead soldier in… Read more »
Aleksandra Grigoryevna Samusenko, born 1922 in Chita, began her tour of duty as a private in aninfantry platoon. Later she successfully finished the tank academy. Samusenko received her Order of the Red Star when her tank crew defeated three German Tiger tanks. Later Samusenko participated in the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive. World War II veteran and writer Fabian Garin, in… Read more »
Women in Nazi Germany were to have a very specific role. Hitler was very clear about this. This role was that they should be good mothers bringing up children at home while their husbands worked. Outside of certain specialist fields, Adolf Hitler saw no reason why a woman should work. Education taught girls from the earliest of years that this was the lifestyle… Read more »
Walter Gerhard Martin Sommer (Schkolen, February 8, 1915 – Schwarzenbruck, June 7, 1988), nicknamed the “Buchenwald Hangman”, was a German SS sub officer with the rank of Hauptscharführer in the Nazi concentration camps Sachsenburg and Buchenwald. Sommer was the son of a farmer in Schkölen. He lived at primary school and became, like his father,… Read more »