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Post by LouisXIV on Feb 18, 2012 20:02:24 GMT 1
I would say the tracks are too narrow for a Nashorn. I can also see what looks like a drop-down side and the edge of the gunshield. Looks like a Grille 10 to me.
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Post by tedi88 on Feb 27, 2012 13:53:07 GMT 1
Seeing that there are no takers for my question I am going to tell you the answer
1st SS Infantry brigade in Russia January 1944. shortly before being disbanded.
Also i am throwing next question open to anyone and I hope LouisXIV agrees with me.
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 1, 2012 13:58:10 GMT 1
Please someone ask a question. I don't have any right now.
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Post by Jagged Steel on Mar 1, 2012 16:03:42 GMT 1
 Of what nation and what unit do these equestrians belong? |
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Post by fallschirmjager on Mar 1, 2012 17:01:39 GMT 1
Florian Geyer Cavalry division
Germany
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 1, 2012 17:20:27 GMT 1
Aha... ;D
Reconnaissance unit of the SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer to be exact...
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Post by tedi88 on Mar 1, 2012 17:46:36 GMT 1
In the Caucasus in 1941. ;D
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Post by Jagged Steel on Mar 1, 2012 20:02:57 GMT 1
Florian Geyer Cavalry division Germany Correct sir, your turn. P.S> Isn't it refreshing to have one once in a while that doesn't require hours of googling to figure out? |
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 15, 2012 23:21:58 GMT 1
WARNING: If someone doesn't ask a question on this forum soon, I might just pose one.
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 16, 2012 2:21:42 GMT 1
Go right ahead Louis...
15 days with nothing... let's go... ;D
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 16, 2012 13:08:42 GMT 1
What significant item did Rommel send Hitler not long before he was shot up by some RCAF fighter-bombers?
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 16, 2012 13:53:35 GMT 1
Great Question!!!
The Conspiracy
Because virtually none of the military conspirators are in command of large armies, they desperately seek to win over a battlefront general who has an army at his disposal to lend the required pivotal support for the coup. But so far the top brass of the Wehrmacht — Brauchitsch, Halder, von Runstedt, Manstein, Guderian, Kluge — have either refused to lend their support or revealed a fence-sitting attitude. Rommel however has long harbored an increasingly rebellious attitude towards Hitler.
If the most popular and admired battlefield commander of the war can be won over, the coup might definitely succeed. With this in mind, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (who has taken over from Colonel Henning von Tresckow as leader of the conspiracy in late 1943) gets General Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel (the military governor for Paris and the leader of the conspirators based in France) to invite Rommel to Paris for secret talks aimed at recruiting the desert fox into the plot.
Rommel agrees with Stuelpnagel that Hitler has long since lost touch with reality and must be forced to concede or else be removed from power. But he declares himself morally opposed to assassination. He wants Hitler arrested and tried by a German court for his crimes.
Rommel tells Stuelpnagel he will give Hitler one last chance by sending the fuehrer a "blitz" telegram outlining the war in the starkest possible terms and urging Hitler to take immediate action on the diplomatic front or cut Germany's losses and authorize the Werhmacht to evacuate France and fall back to Germany's borders.
Rommel however is certain his warning will be ignored, in which case he declares himself prepared to support a coup. He also agrees that Guenther von Kluge may be more of a liability than an asset to the conspirators. He then gives Stuelpnagel his word of honor that even if Kluge refuses to stand up and be counted, he will act "openly and unconditionally" with the conspirators.
On July 16, 1944, Rommel wrote a blitz message to Hitler and asked Kluge to have it delivered immediately.
The next day RAF fighters strafed Rommel's motorcade along a French country road, killing his driver. Rommel's car spuns out of control and the field marshal was hurtled into a ditch with severe head injuries.
Rommel can be of no help to the conspirators when Stauffenberg plants his bomb three days later at Hitler's headquarters.
Kluge meanwhile fails to immediately forward Rommel's blitz telegram, sending it to Hitler two weeks later.
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 16, 2012 16:25:00 GMT 1
You're on the right track, but you're only telling part of the story. It was more than a "blitz telegram." Rommel himself several times described it as an ______________.
More importantly, what were Rommel's specific intentions if Hitler did not act upon his missive?
(Upon further investigation, apparently at least one source claims that it was a RSAAF aircraft that ended Rommel's career.)
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Post by Major Pain on Mar 16, 2012 19:05:54 GMT 1
No... it was Hitler that ended Rommel's career.
Oh... you mean..... ULTIMATUM!
If ignored, Rommel was going to be 'up front and personal' with the big guy and put him out of commission.
'up front and personal' = "openly and unconditionally"
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Post by LouisXIV on Mar 16, 2012 23:03:30 GMT 1
Rommel said specifically to several sources that if Hitler did not do something like starting negotiations for a peace, he himself would open negotiations with the western Allies. He specifically said that he would either surrender the armies under his command to the Anglo-Americans, or if that was unacceptable under Unconditional Surrender he would move his forces aside and let the Allies go charging into Germany.
Unfortunately his incapacitation by the RAF ruined that chance to an early end to the war, an ending that would NOT result in the Soviets in control of half of Europe.
Close enough, Colonel, proceed.
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