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February 9th, 2005
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| Primus Pilus | ss units where not all nazis, many simply joined because they were elites from the german army the ss units were used as shocktroopers, heading attacks and in the first line of defence durign the battle of kursk it was these units that met the soviet 5th guards tank army, if it wasnt for these units and their capabilities, they may never have broke through many defences
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February 9th, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Quote:
Yes the Waffen SS units were used in that capacity, but no more than the Heer Panzer formations were. In fact, aside from political reasons, there seems to have been no need to have the Waffen SS at all. They weren't any better than the best Heer Panzer divisions, and they didn't do anything different from those divisions, as both Heer and Waffen SS units were integrated into the Wehrmacht and fought alongside each other. It was Heer commanders and not Waffen SS commanders that gave the latter formations their objectives for example.
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February 9th, 2005
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| Tribunus Laticlavius  | It could easily be argued that Grossdeutscheland and Liebensdart Adolf Hitler were, man for man, the best divisions of World War II.
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February 12th, 2005
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Now lets have another look at Carentan. How well does the Band of Brothers episode follow the real hard facts? Who has seen the episode lately  | |
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February 13th, 2005
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| Primus Pilus | hey man, any where i can download those band of bros episodes?? |
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October 13th, 2007
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| Immunes  | D-Day and Band of Brothers both by Stephan Ambrose talk about the paratrooper drops.I think being spread out helped the Allies more than it hurt them.I was watching something on the history channel couldn't rember what documentary it was thougth but I rember it said that Hittler and the German high command didn't think it was the invasion because of the randomness of the paratroopers drop that night.
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