The Graf Spee never sank, The scuttling attempt failed and the ship was bought by the British. On board was Germany’s newest radar system. One of Japan’s methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with on ly the nose exposed. When a tank came near the enough a soldier… Read more »
The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937) The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940). 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive World War 2 The highest ranking American killed was Lieutenant Genral Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air… Read more »
Fritz Kuhn was born 15-05-1896, in Munich, the son of Georg Kuhn and Julia Jystina Kuhn (born Beuth). His brother was Max Kuhn who later became a Supreme Court judge in National Socialist Germany. During the first war, Fritz Kuhn earned an Iron Cross as an infantry leutnant and fought along the French-Italian-Serbian-Rumanian frontier. He… Read more »
On August 8 1938, SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered a couple of hundred prisoners from the Dachau camp to be transported to the little town of Mauthausen just outside Linz. The plan was to build a new camp in order to supply slave labor for the Wiener Graben stone quarry. Until 1939, most of the… Read more »
Joachim Schepke began his naval career in April 1930. He spent two years on the ‘pocket battleship’ Deutschland before, as Günther Prien also had, transferring to the U-boat force in October 1935. Later he spent 18 months as an instructor at the Torpedo School at Flensburg, but in 1938 he became commander of the training… Read more »