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Franz Buchner

Lieutenant Franz Buchner (1898-1920) was a high-scoring German air ace of the First World War, achieving 40 ‘kills’ during 1917 and 1918. Born on 2 January 1898 in Leipzig Buchner enlisted with the German Army – the infantry – in 1914 while aged 16.  He was posted to service on the Eastern Front in 1915 following recuperation [...]

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General Sir John Davison on the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917

The Third Battle of Ypres - commonly referred to simply as a ‘Passchendaele’ – is commonly cited today as an example (along with the July 1916 Battle of the Somme) of British Commander-in-ChiefSir Douglas Haig’s enormously costly attritional war strategy. In heavy rain and glutinous mud predominantly British troops eventually succeeded in capturing the small village of Passchendaele in [...]

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Hitler’s Order of the Day Calling for Invasion of Yugoslovia and Greece (April 6, 1941)

SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTHEAST FRONT: Since early this morning the German people are at war with the Belgrade government of intrigue. We shall only lay down arms when this band of ruffians has been definitely and most emphatically eliminated, and the last Briton has left this part of the European Continent, and that these misled [...]

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Success and a Suicide

The years 1930 and 1931 had been good for Hitler politically. The Nazis were now the second largest political party in Germany. Hitler had become a best-selling author, with Mein Kampf selling over 50,000 copies, bringing him a nice income. The Nazi Party also had fancy new headquarters in Munich called the Brown House. Money was flowing [...]

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Party Comrades!

We have recently heard the Führer speak twice. As always when the Führer speaks, his words fill our thoughts and feelings. They reach the individual as well as the nation. A Führer speech always has effects that last a long time, for weeks, and leaves citizens especially open to the great questions of the day. [...]

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Waffen-SS M42 Helmet

In 1942 another new version of the Stahlhelm came into Wehrmacht service, the Model 1943 (in the United Kingdom, the Model 1942 is usually referred to as the Model 1943.) Because of wartime production troubles and the lack or raw materials, the Model 1943 Stahlhelm was stamped out of only one sheet of steel. This [...]

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Germany knows what is at stake

Germans know the hopelessness of Britain’s gamble, of their wish to make the German people collapse, thus gaining victory at the last moment. They know the sadistic plans of the Jew Kaufman, who wants to exterminate the German people by sterilizing them. They know the pitiless plans of the “Vansittarts,” and they know the demand [...]

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22 June 1941

22 June 1941 was the big event that Churchill and those behind the scenes in England and the USA had long predicted would change the war in their favor. The final source of military assistance, the military colossus of the Soviet Union, could be set in motion against Germany. The unleashing of the Bolshevist army [...]

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Courage

Only he who is ready to fight for honor has it! Germany was treated in 1919 as a people without honor, because traitors and dreamers persuaded the Germans people that one can live in this world without fighting. Not only did the German people destroy its weapons, and renounce them for the future, it also disarmed [...]

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German Soldiers as Witnesses against Bolshevism

The homeland hears about events at the front in an unbelievably short time. German radio often brings reports in the evening of deeds of arms that occurred only a few hours earlier, and the German newsreel includes pictures brought by air directly from the battlefields. The German people have almost direct contact with the accomplishments [...]

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