#Luftwaffe

Jake Holliday

J_O_Holliday

Thread: An injured Luftwaffe Oberleutnant, a Fliegerleitoffizier (Flyer Control Officer), in his Sd.Kfz 251 Funkwagen observing and directing attack aircraft towards Soviet positions, Russia, 1943. Cooperation between the Army and

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

Luftwaffe Historical Section, US Interrogations 1945. An archivist friend @USNatArchives advised of some interrogation files that had not yet been released and would I be interested in seeing them in

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

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

[1 of 15]New Year's Day, 1945: THE HANGOVERThe Battle of the Bulge continues.... [2 of 15]On the morning of January 1, 1945, Hitler launches Operation Bodenplatte (Baseplate), an aerial assault

Victoria Taylor ⚔️💎

SpitfireFilly

Fascinating update - this Luftwaffe Hauptmann also had a daughter. She trained as an interpreter and ended up serving in Vienna as a 'Luftwaffenhelferin' (female Luftwaffe assistant). I'd not even

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

Phillips P. OBrien

PhillipsPOBrien

OK, Ive been reading all these stories and tweets about the valiant "Few" who won the Battle of Britain, and I do feel its necessary to put this myth to

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

Adolf Galland’s memoir was manufactured during the 1950s. His plot follows a similar style to books published after the Great War. The content is dubious and should be treated with

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

The Luftwaffe took a massive pounding over Normandy.As the Heer's ammunition supplies interdicted by Allied tactical aircraft, Luftflotte III tasked medium bombers such as the Ju88 to hit British arty,

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

Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

DrAlakbarov

Thread:Outside of London, a town in the north of the Scotland called Peterhead was the second-most bombed location in the UK. The town and its 10,000 residents were bombed 28

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) Some of you are not going to like this column, but I'm gonna say it anyway.2) After 9/11, the Bush administration had two strategic objectives: destroy al-Qaeda regimes that

Dr Philip W Blood🇪🇺

BloodPhilip

This is a response to Friday’s thread about re-enacting in Nazi uniforms. In this case I have attended to subjects of my research; the Luftwaffe, the SS, the Police and

James Humphries GOJ 🦍

GorillaoJustice

1. I have a small thread inspired by @acatfromgreece & his threads. Sometime in July 1944 a Bernard Humphries was attached to 854 Squadron FAA, one morning he was checking

Historic Southampton

HistoricalSoton

THREAD - THE SOUTHAMPTON BLITZ:#OnThisDay eighty years ago - 23 November 1940 - the Luftwaffe targeted Southampton and the town suffered its most destructive raid of the Blitz so far.It

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

Some more info on the ‘clean Wehrmacht’ - presentation by archivist of the German federal archives on what can be found in the archives. #wehrmacht #heer #warcrimes #WW2 https://training.ehri-project.eu/sites/training.ehri-project.eu/fi

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