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Toch ben je af en toe nog wel eens grappig

 

[Stephen Graham]

 

[Arminius]

De Duitse infanterie was niet zo'n fan van de Nebelwerfer. Door de rookontwikkeling kregen zij dan Sovjet artillerie op hun kop.

 

[Stephen Graham]

V1 leek me het afgrijslijkst. Plek van impact is onbekend

 

[Arminius]

Lijkt me nog steeds aangenamer dan een formatie van 1000 bombers boven je stad.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Welnee, dan weet je dat je sowieso fucked bent.

 

[Arminius]

 

[Stephen Graham]

Benieuwd hoe de oorlog verlopen zou zijn als de Wehrmacht daadwerkelijk Moskou had veroverd

 

[Arminius]

Het had naar mijn mening geen verschil gemaakt. Door een grote stad te veroveren vernietig je het leger v.d. tegenstander niet. Ik denk ook dat het een pyrrusoverwinning geweest zou zijn. Dat konden ze missen als kiespijn.

Als ik me niet vergis verloor het Duitse leger in het oosten al 11% van hun manschappen voor de Slag om Kiev. (gewond, vermist, dood)

 

[Arminius]

Friedrich zou zich omdraaien in z'n graf.

 

[Arminius]

"To be dive-bombed by Stukas was a nerve-shattering experience. With their cranked wing shape, they could drop like a stone from the sky, position their bomb accurately and with the howling mechanism operation on the dive, those on the ground were forced to scatter in terror."

—Second Lieutenant John Dixon (context: Slag om Frankrijk)

Junkers Ju 87

 

[Stephen Graham]

Oostfrontveteranen worden nog immer 's nachts zwetend wakker van het geluid van de Stalinorgels

 

[Arminius]

Desondanks stelden de westerse geallieerden minder gevallen van 'battle fatigue' vast bij Wehrmacht POWs, dan bij hun eigen troepen.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Wehrmacht vocht voor een hoger doel: Bolsjewisme en Heimat beschermen.

G.I's moest in filmpjes in Jip en Janneke taal uitleggen waar ze voor vochten: vage term genaamd democratie.

 

[Arminius]

The experience of an airborne soldier of Student's, Peter Meier, was much the same. He got no sleep at all for three days while fighting in Rotterdam and recalled:

We were prepared for a lack of rest and constant night-time activity. As a paratrooper I was trained for it because our situation often involved being surrounded and waiting for reinforcement or relief... In Rotterdam on the night of 10-11 May, the fighting was sporadic but it could be intense. After a tiring night it was a boost to see the sun rise in a clear blue sky.
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The job of those airborne forces in the Netherlands on 11 May was essentially a straightforward one – to hold on until the arrival of the ground forces. General Winkelman's task Dutch Commander-in-chief was similarly unambiguous – to eliminate the potentially fatal German penetration of Fortress Holland. The counter-attacks that were launched by the Dutch against the German airborne forces that day, however, all failed in the face of fierce resistance from a technically superior enemy. In Rotterdam, despite being reinforced by an infantry regiment, the Dutch made several unsuccessful attempts to oust Meier and his colleagues from their perimeter around the Wilhelms Bridge and a bombing raid mounted to destroy the structure also failed. At the other bridges further south, a number of gallant Dutch actions were also beaten off with the assistance of waves of Stukas. Similar outcomes also wrecked Dutch attempts to overwhelm the airborne troops on the three Dutch airfields near The Hague who had failed to extract themselves and head towards Rotterdam. The situation was, Peter Meier later explained, less difficult for the German airborne soldiers to contend with than for the Dutch fighting them:

We had been mentally and physically trained for such difficult scenarios. Being encircled was something that we had practiced time and time again. How often had the Dutch tried to oust an enemy fighting for his life from an objective that he would die for? Not once, I would think. So, I looked on at the growing number of enemy corpses surrounding our position with rather less surprise than the enemy did. We were supremely motivated while the Dutch found that the defence of their country was beginning to collapse around them.

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De eerste lichting waren bijzondere kerels.

 

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Friedrich zou zich omdraaien in z'n graf.

Ben er vrij zeker van dat we ook Albert Forster zien op deze foto. De man die min of meer zei dat Himmler, met diens uiterlijk, geen te grote bek moest hebben over ras. ()

 

[Stephen Graham]

Zijn er geen verhalen van ontsnapte dieren uit dierentuinen na bombardementen? Hoorde dat in de singels van Rotterdam zeeleuwen zwommen na het bombardement. En hier en daar een zebra in de straten foerageerden.

 

[Arminius]

“The elephants gave spine-chilling screams. Their house was still standing but an explosive bomb of terrific force had landed behind it, lifted the dome of the house, turned it round, and put it back on again. The baby cow elephant was lying in the moat on her back with her legs helplessly reaching up toward the sky, suffering severe stomach injuries unable to move. The hippopotamuses were drowned when debris pinned them to the bottom of their water basin. In the ape house, a gibbon reached out to the trainer, only bloody stumps left of its arms. Nearly forty rhesus monkeys escaped to the trees but were dead by the next day from drinking water polluted by the incendiary chemicals. The next day, a U.S. aircraft pilot flew in low, firing at anything he could see was still alive. In this way, our last giraffe met her death. Many stags and others animals which we had saved became victims of this hero.”

Wellicht samengevoegde flarden uit The Devil's Tinderbox: Dresden, 1945 (Alexander McKee, 1982). Alhoewel het niet bij de bronnen staat onderaan.

 

[Arminius]

Two German infantrymen give a light to a captured Belgian soldier, May 1940

 

[Arminius]

Frankrijk 1940 vs. Rusland 1943