Image from a sheet of miniature posters, based on the originals, intended for military modelling dioramas. I think this one states - 'Abandoned population, have confidence in the German soldier!'
1939- 1945 Gneisenau: a brilliant compromise, or a waste of resources?
She was to become one of the best-known German war ships of the Second World War, but that actually says very little, for the surface fleet in which she served was incapable of making a real mark on the conflict...
1939 BISMARCK. Launched on 14 February 1939 at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss and commissioned on 24 August 1940, the Bismarck required the concentrated fire of half the British Home Fleet to sink her on 27 May 1941. In her day the worlds largest battleship, Bismarck was in service for...
1936 GNEISENAU. Like most of the Third Reichs major surface warships, Gneisenau, and her sister-ship Scharnhorst, with whom she was always linked, were really effective only as components of a powerful fleet-in-being.
SQUANDERED RESOURCES
The two ships of the Scharrihorst class were to...
1936 SCHARNHORST Like much of Germanys surface fleet during World War II, the Scharnhorst and her sister-ship the Gneisenau were really effective only in that they tied down precious British naval assets.
A POLITICAL NECESSITY
The Scharnhorsts were to have been enlarged Deutschland-class...
Hans and Sophie Scholl were born in 1918 and 1921, in a little town called Forchtenberg, and belonged to an underground student movement called The White Rose.
in 1942, they began printing anti-Nazi pamphlets and distributed them first at the university of Munich, where they studied, and...
The leader of the SA (Sturm Abteilung) the Brown Shirts. The first paramilitary organization of the new
Nazi Party, founded November 4,1921 in a Munich beer hall. Hitler was affraid of the power that Rohm
and the SA had so in June 1934 Ernst Rohm and 150 officers and leaders in the SA were...
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