Posted on 07/17/2011 6:51:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Are you sure about that? It looks to me like a substantial part of the Soviet tanker is missing.
Most historians writing after the War were relying on the testimony, affidavits, studies done for the U.S. Army, by the German generals, including Halder. Their common themes were: all the mistakes were Hitler’s [if only he’d listened to us], and all the criminal acts were committed by the SS, including the same Waffen SS that saved their bacon more than once.
I first read of the dissension over the Kiev encirclement in, I believe, Alan Clarke’s “BARBAROSSA”.
I think you're right-no that was a personal comment for another photo that had no place/date. I know I shouldn't but I had to laugh when I read your comment.
I don’t know what the topic of the thread is but by coincidence I was looking papke up on the net and came across this. i was drawn to his identity by a photo of his grave with a helmet mounted on top in a Youtube video series “unpublished German Photos of the war in Russia 1941-45. I think it was Episode 2 or 3. I was not expecting anyone else to be looking for him.
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