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frauleinkitty: Hyvää Ystävänpäivää! Happy Valentines Day!
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fallschirmjager: 6th Fallschirmjager Regiment, France...
6th Fallschirmjager Regiment, France 1944.
Another reenactment picture showing our group. This was before we did the other half of the Seves Island battle. My hat goes off to the 90th US Army Division, and the 9th US Army Division reenacting groups for doing such an excellent job.
Reblogging for the sheer awesomeness of my unit!
Bunch of fun guys!
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fallschirmjager: I would like to introduce you to a good pal,...
I would like to introduce you to a good pal, and the future leader of the Hungarian Russki Frontoviki…..Terry Blaine, leader of the Soviet 95th rifles. He is the fellow striking the jaunty pose in front of the Soviet camp.
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fallschirmjager: Handsome Fallschirmjager doing handsome...
Handsome Fallschirmjager doing handsome Fallschirmjager stuff..
what kind of stuff you ask?
Nothing much, just drinking beers leaning against a F**KING Flugzeugabwehr-Kanone 88 and enjoying Kameradschaft!
(Left to Right) Flieger Meyer, Obergefreiter Augustus, Gefrieter Kalb, and Gefrieter Geringer.
Fallschirmjager Horrido! Treue um Treue!
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reparations: Volunteer Nurses of the SS Skijäger-Bataillon...
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Why haven't you posted as regularly as you normally do? It isn't a complaint as much as just wanting to know. I love your posts and always look forward to them.
I think the old German saying “Wenn schon, denn schon”* is applicable here. If I make a post, I try and make it something worth not only my time, but that of others who follow me. Could I post a bunch of pictures that are seen over and over? Yes, but I’d rather at least post some information behind it. Of course I am guilty of posting just a picture, but that is because it resonates with me personally. That said, I will be posting about “Großdeutschland” personalities along with some lessor known SS pictures soon. I thank you for the kind question Gray Being known as ‘S’.
*When something is worth doing at all, it is worth doing right.
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Oberst Willi Langkeit Born on June 2, 1907, Willi Langkeit was a...
Oberst Willi Langkeit
Born on June 2, 1907, Willi Langkeit was a professional soldier who joined the 100,000 man Reichsheer in 1924. Langkeit was awarded the Ritterkreuz on December 9, 1942 while commanding II/Pz.Rgt. 36 of the Saxon 14. Panzerdivision in the Stalingrad pocket. The Eichenlaub followed almost exactly one year later on December 7, 1943 while in command of the reborn Pz.Rgt. 36. Oberst Langkeit assumed command of Pz.Rgt.“Großdeutschland” Otto Busing in March 1944, leading it through the fighting in Romania, the Baltic States and Prussia.
While commanding Ersatzbrigade GD in Cottbus in January 1945, Langkeit received orders to build a Kampfgruppe for immediate action on the Oder front. At the beginning of February this battle group served as a cadre for the newly-raised Panzergrenadierdivision “Kurmark.” Fighting desperately against great odds, the Division was smashed and its remnants scattered during the attempted breakout from Soviet encirclement in the Halbe are at the end of March 1945. A Generalmajor since February 1945, Willi Langkeit led the survivors of the March fighting to the Americans. “Kurmark” was one of several Großdeutschland “sister units” raised in the last year of war which attempted, with differing degrees of success, to reverse Germany’s fortunes and still uphold the honor and reputation of the parent unit.
Above: Oberst Willie Langkeit, commander of Pz.Rgt. GD, seen in October 1944 with one of the Regiments Tiger I tanks in the background.
Above: Oberst Langkeit discusses the next movements to his subordinates, next to his personal command tank, a Pz.Kpfw. V Panther (Sd.Kfz. 171) Ausf. A.
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Oberfeldwebel Karl Schwappacher Oberfeldwebel Karl Schwappacher,...
Oberfeldwebel Karl Schwappacher
Oberfeldwebel Karl Schwappacher, was a Zugführer in 17.(IG)/Pz.Gr.Rgt. Großdeutschland during the fighting in Romania, spring 11944. “Schwapp,” as he was known to one and all in the Regiment, was another of those indispensable veterans of the Infanterieheerregiment Döbertz, where he had been a top gunnery instructor on the s.IG 33 IR (motorized) GD in late 1939. A native of Bavaria, Karl Schwappacher served throughout the war with GD, participated in every campaign and was decorated with the German Gold Cross, the Honor Roll Clasp of the German Amy and the General Assault Badge with a bar of 25 engagements. In spite of all the action he saw in Russia,Karl Schwappacher recalls the crossing of the Meuse at Sedan and the intense fighting at Stonne in May 1940 as the most memorable of his experiences with Großdeutschland. At the base of his shoulder-boards, Oberfeldwebel Schwappacher wears the white cloth cyphers which distinguished Pz.Gr.Rgt. GD from the Pz.Füs.Rgt. GD who wore red cyphers.
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Oberleutnant Bruno Kikillus Oberleutnant Bruno Kikillus, an east...
Oberleutnant Bruno Kikillus
Oberleutnant Bruno Kikillus, an east Prussian of Lithuanian extraction, was born September 1, 1914, in Sensburg in the Masurian Lakes region. At the time of this photograph was taken in April 1944, Kikillus was (from early June 1944) Kompaniechef of 17.Pz.Füs.Rgt. Großdeutschland, the Regiment’s Bison-equipped self propelled 15cm heavy infantry gun company. Bruno Kikillus wears the cloth version of the German Cross in Gold he was awarded on January 25, 1944 for his personal gallantry during the winter fighting southwest of Kirovograd. The infantry guns rarely operated as complete companies, usually being assigned to platoon or sections among the infantry and where frequently caught up in close combat, explaining the Nahkampfspange (Close Combat Clasp) on Kikillus’s left breast. As commander of what was in effect a howitzer battery, Oberleutant Kikillus holds an artillery map board and wears powerful Voigtländer 10X50 artillery binoculars around his neck. Already awarded the Wound Badge in Silver, Bruno Kikillus suffered what proved to be a fatal wound outside of Targul Frumos in early June 1944, while his company was in close support of the Panzerfüsiliers. Evacuated to the dressing station, he was transferred to the Division’s field hospital at Roman, where he died on June 12, 1944. He was buried in the adjacent German military cemetery.
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Untersturmführer Franz Witt, brother of Fritz Witt. He died...
Untersturmführer Franz Witt, brother of Fritz Witt. He died during the the Battle of Klidi Pass.
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Sturmbannführer Joachim Peiper with his adjutant...
Sturmbannführer Joachim Peiper with his adjutant Untersturmführer Wolff in their command post during the Battle of Kursk.
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operation kino.: disillusion3d: i think people who really want a zombie apocalypse to...
operation kino.: disillusion3d: i think people who really want a zombie apocalypse to...:
i think people who really want a zombie apocalypse to happen so they can kill tons of zombies are maybe.. not… totally.. good..
like i think on a subconscious (or conscious) level, you want to kill people (or creatures that resemble humans) en masse with no consequences
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opacasilentianoctis: Finnish civilians dive to the ground as...
Finnish civilians dive to the ground as sirens warn about approaching Soviet bombers. Apparently there’s no air raid shelter anywhere nearby. Winter War, 1940.
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Ancient Geramanic Studies: Reflections on Disparate Myths of Divine Sacrifice
Ancient Geramanic Studies: Reflections on Disparate Myths of Divine Sacrifice:
Part one.
One of the Norse Gods Odin’s most intriguing deeds is the self hanging episode describing in strophes 139-42 of the “Harvamal” section in the Poetic Edda.(1) Odin serves as “Allfather” among the AEsir pantheon, and certain powerful indicators of his sovereignty (magical knowledge…
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operationbarbarossa: Finnish troops loading a mortar near the...
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Finnish Officers of the Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der...
Finnish Officers of the Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der Waffen-SS in Spring 1942.
At left: SS-Unterscharführers Tovio Vaaramo and Tauno Pohjanlehto.
Middle: SS-Obersturmführer Karl-Erik Landau together with SS-Obersturmführer Eric Hannus and SS-Untersturmführer Tauno Pajunen.
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Finnish SS-Untersturmführers Kaarlo Kuutti, Ola Olin and Tauno...
Finnish SS-Untersturmführers Kaarlo Kuutti, Ola Olin and Tauno Pajunen in spring 1942. Kuutti fell at Kagalnitzkaja on 2.2.1943. Olin and Pajunen survived the war.
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Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon Panzerjägers Sato Kaisla and...
Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon Panzerjägers Sato Kaisla and artillery officer Heikki Mansala.
These men who were part of the initial 400 Finnish volunteers in 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking”, then when SS Freiwilligen-Battalion Nordost was formed, they were moved to the new Finnish volunteer Battalion. Notice Heikki Mansala has his traditional Finnish “Puukko” knives hanging from his belt.
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