#Wehrmacht

Hans Cummings

HCCummings

Story time (1/x)Growing up, I didn't hear hyperbolic stories about walking uphill both ways in the snow for school.My mother is an immigrant. She was born in Germany, in 1936.

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

Doing some reading this afternoon about 5th Fallschirmjager Div in the Ardennes, and it shows how badly the attritional battles in Italy and Normandy depleted this once elite arm of

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

Orpo and tanks. Follows on from a previous thread about the Ordnungspolizei. This thread is about Orpo-Panzertrupppen.https://twitter.com/bloodphilip/status/1347962445286010881 A difficult story. Why did the Orpo end up with a large panzer

Auschwitz Memorial

AuschwitzMuseum

Before the 76th anniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz we bring together the most important facts about the last stage of the operation of this German Nazi camp. See the

Victoria Taylor ⚔️💎

SpitfireFilly

Using the terms 'Germans', 'Nazi' etc. is a lot more complicated and heavily-loaded than people realise. I think there are several reasons as to why we often hear ‘Nazi’ used

Warriorscomeout

warriorscomeout

@SilenceInPolish is doing her excellent August series on the Polish 1st Armored Division. The beginning of their campaign as a division coincides with the Warsaw Uprising in Poland.This first thread

Mumbaikar VK

accountantvarun

My view on Modi's strategy to counter economic slowdown - If India is to become Global Power & able to compete with US & China, we need to grow at

Matthias Bergmann, Kanzlei Kind & Recht

Bergmann_Mat

My granddad was an avid nazi until his death in the early 90s. He was a small town banker, volunteered in 40 and became a staff sergeant in the Wehrmacht.

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

Am grateful to the Pontifical Swiss Guard for the opportunity to visit their historic armoury at the Vatican. Here is the historic uniforms, body armour & helmets of the Swiss

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

#OTD in 1941 7 Armoured Brigade crossed the wire on the Libyan/Egyptian border, the first combat formation to cross. It lasted less than a week in battle. @KarlJames_1945 @robert_lyman @militaryhistori

Jonathan

3468marsh

A thread on the massacre of unarmed civilians at the Village of Kondomari on this day, 2 June in 1941 by men of the Luflande-Sturm-Regiment commanded by Oberleutnant Horst Trebes

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

#FreeNavalny protests underway all over Russia today.Here is one brave policeman taking on a dangerous subversive agent.https://twitter.com/galiamina/status/1352927858516250624 Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg. The aprly named Upris

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

1. NYE thread: the Hausser myths and research of the SS.Paul Hausser and the erasing of SS crimes. Born in 1880 in Brandenburg and died in Ludwigsburg 1972. A career

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

Advaidism

During World War 2, the Nazis were afraid of 46th Taman Regiment (An all-female regiment of Soviet Air force)The Nazis dubbed them the 'Night Witches', on account of the way

Nick Budd

BuddNicholas

The German Stahlhelm - Part 1 I’m going to do this about face, part 1 will focus on the most commonly used Stahlhelm of WW2 & its evolution. Part 2

Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD is carrying the fire

dynamicsymmetry

As someone who literally did a doctoral dissertation on the Holocaust, I’m... gonna take issue with this, sorry. Deep dives into Nazi backgrounds are actually often very worthwhile. I read

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