WW2

[Arminius]

Dat is toch zo'n beetje hoe Richard J. Evans hem omschrijft.

His interest did not really lie in politics. Ernst Röhm was the epitome of the front-line generation that had come to believe in its own myth. Röhm's penchant was for mindless violence, not political conspiracy.

He had no interest at all in ideas, and glorified the rough and brutal lifestyle of the soldier in his acts as well as his creed. He had nothing but contempt for civilians, and revelled in lawlessness of wartime life. Drinking and carousing, fighting and brawling cemented the band of brothers among whom he found his place: women were treated with disdain, strangers to military life had no place in his world.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Zal ook wel in de Baltics als een beest tekeer zijn gegaan

 

[Arminius]

Born in 1887, the son of a Bavarian railway official, Röhm joined the army in 1906 and became an officer two years later. He served at the front in the war, but was invalided out - shrapnel had partially destroyed his nose and badly damaged his face, and he had been seriously wounded at Verdun. After this, Röhm worked for the War Ministry in Bavaria and was in charge of arranging the supply of weapons, first for the Kahr's Denizens' Defence Force and then for its fragmented successor groups. Known to such people as the 'machine-gun king', Röhm boasted a huge range of contacts on the far right. Among other things, he was a staff officer and enjoyed a high reputation in the army, and acted as a liaison officer with the paramilitaries. He clearly had a talent for organisation.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Hermann Ehrhardt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ook een overlever dit hoor

 

[Arminius]

Hij nam wel deel aan de 1919 episode in Beieren. (Radenrepubliek) Aan de kant van de tegenstanders, uiteraard.

 

[Arminius]

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He described Hitler as "absolutely unacceptable," "a psychopath," and "an idiot."

"Mein Gott, ist das ein Idiot!“ —Erich von Manstein

 

[Arminius]

Viljo Suokas (1920–1943)

His skills in guerilla warfare were noticed and after Winter War he received special training for long range patrol missions. In Continuation War Suokas served as patrol leader in Detachment Kuismanen. He was credited for many successful missions, with the longest time spent behind enemy lines being 46 days. Viljo Suokas died on October 4, 1943 while clearing a storage building at Segezha, a town by the Murmansk railway.

 

[Arminius]

Born in 1887, the son of a Bavarian railway official, Röhm joined the army in 1906 and became an officer two years later. He served at the front in the war, but was invalided out - shrapnel had partially destroyed his nose and badly damaged his face, and he had been seriously wounded at Verdun. After this, Röhm worked for the War Ministry in Bavaria and was in charge of arranging the supply of weapons, first for the Kahr's Denizens' Defence Force and then for its fragmented successor groups. Known to such people as the 'machine-gun king', Röhm boasted a huge range of contacts on the far right. Among other things, he was a staff officer and enjoyed a high reputation in the army, and acted as a liaison officer with the paramilitaries. He clearly had a talent for organisation.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Ik word hier emotioneel van

 

[Ashbringer45]

Ik word hier emotioneel van

Meest prachtige stuk staal ooit.

 

[Arminius]

Tiger I

 

[Arminius]

Panzaaaaah! Aus hier!

 

[Arminius]

"In the West war was the same honorable old game; nobody went out of his way to be vicious, and fighting stopped often by five in the afternoon. But in the East, the Russians were trying to kill you all the time."

The man in the black pajamas dude, worthy fuckin' adversary.

 

[Stephen Graham]

 

[Arminius]

Nieuw boek over de Hiedler jaren:

De laatste in het Engels waren door Michael Burleigh en Richard Evans. (gok ik)

 

[Arminius]

Ik weet ook wie de grootste beunhaas is

Hitler natuurlijk. Met zn ego in Stalingrad en verder in Oekraine nog met zn stand houden ook al verloren zaak

Daarover gesproken...

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A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent.

That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy.

Stephen G. Fritz is professor at East Tennessee State University. His books include Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II and Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East.

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“Perhaps the best account we have to date of Hitler’s military leadership. It shows a scrupulous and imaginative historian at work and will cement Fritz’s reputation as one of the leading historians of the military conflicts generated by Hitler’s Germany.”—Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War

“Magnificent. Hitler emerges as a complex and nuanced military leader who cannot simply be dismissed as the dogmatic ideologue or the corporal in command. Original, insightful and authoritative Fritz’s latest work is something I will return to again and again.”—David Stahel, author of The Battle for Moscow

“Cuts a swathe through the reconstituted arguments of countless other books about Hitler. Meticulously researched and adopting a thoroughly readable style, Fritz offers profound new insights about Hitler as commander. This is a volume which should serve as a warning to strategic leaders who become blinkered by ideology, self-absorbed and neglect the requirements of successful leadership.”—Lloyd Clark, author of Blitzkrieg

Vandaag binnen @ 6,39 euro. Ondertussen alweer gestegen tot 16,20 euro. Vandaag zijn de prijzen erg hoog. Sommige boeken kosten het dubbele van gisteren.

 

[Arminius]

 

[Vieze jij]

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hoort deze niet in het voeger was ik cute topic

 

[Arminius]

Those were some tough krauts.

 

[Arminius]

When the French pulled back from the territory along the Rhine near Kehl, which they had briefly occupied during the Polish campaign, Ernst Guicking grabbed the supplies they abandoned. He was able to send a packet of real coffee back to Irene and her aunt in Giessen. They were delighted to have a break from the synthetic brew known colloquially as 'Horst Wessel coffee' because - like the eponymous Nazi martyr of the Party anthem - 'the beans only marched with them in spirit'.