Yes it is. Even here in Germany, with the clubs who can buy the players from Croatia, i don't see the advantage of buying players from everywhere....
No, I didn't. The usual young soldier who fought in the Wehrmacht did it for the same reasons than his allied counterpart. Those who committed war...
As a german, i didn't understood the soccer-animosity between germans and dutch supporters for a long time. It is a different animosity from the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsaQdYmTPtY At min 04.50 a german Panther crew-member says: "For us, the Sherman was a weak opponent (or easy...
No Sir :salute: Not given by soldiers. Does anybody know, why the german planes didn't deserve codenames? The italian food in Africa called A.M....
The problem of the Wehrmacht was, that they had to fight too many enemy tanks and that they lost air superiority. I think, you need a mix of...
Yes. it was a very good gun but not very mobile: http://world-war-2.wikia.com/wiki/PaK_40_%2875mm%29 It was cheap to make compared with a tank,...
The Panzerfaust was the most cost effective anti-tank-weapon and ideal for all the german Volkssturm-veterans, Kindergarten-units or even women....
You mean the soviet 76mm anti-tank-gun, nicknamed Ratsch-Bumm by the Wehrmacht?...
British helmet - stockpot (Suppentopf) I doubt it too that any allied soldier called the MG 42 "Hitler's Buzz Saw" during combat.
What was your father's job on board of the USS Washington?
The BT 7 tank was renamed Mickey Mouse by the german infantry: [IMG] These (disabled) tanks with the open hatches must have been a familiar sight...
Never heard of the "Freight Cars"! A german heavy artillery? Il 2 Sturmovik, "der Bucklige" in german, but the nickname was invented by the...
Stalinorgel or Stalin's organ was the german nickname for the feared Katjushas, Heulende Kuh or screaming cow for the Nebelwerfer. The famous...
It's christmas and the last weeks, I remembered what my father (he died in 1996) told me about his experiences in the war. He was a teenager in...
The french fleet in Mérs-El-Kébir was trapped in the Mediterranean Sea, so even if Vichy-France would have liked it, there was no support for an...
US carriers could take a lot of hits, the Hornet could not be sunk even by their own destroyers. HMS Ark Royal sunk after she was hit by one (1)...
(Parts of) the Waffen-SS tortured and killed everywhere and everyone, no matter which colour or race they had.
And Cerberus was almost two years later. So: They couldn't discover an invasion fleet at distances over 40 miles. Juergen Oesten, commander of...
German population in general had (surprising) few prejudices against black people. During the Olypic Games 1936 in Berlin, Jesse Owens was...
