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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:25 am

Red Army soldiers referred to Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm as ‘totals’ because they were the product of the total mobilization. Wehrmacht officers called them the ‘casserole’ because they were a mixture of old meat and green vegetables.


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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:27 am

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Mobilization 1945-2

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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:29 am

Mobilization 1945-3

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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:30 am

Mobilization -4

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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:31 am

Mobilization -5

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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:32 am

TOTALS 1945
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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:33 am

Mobilization-6

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Post by Panzer_M » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:43 am

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Re: ‘totals’

Post by Skauser » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:51 pm

[quote="debrito"]Red Army soldiers referred to Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm as ‘totals’ because they were the product of the total mobilization. Wehrmacht officers called them the ‘casserole’ because they were a mixture of old meat and green vegetables.
]Antony Beevors Berlin ????
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Post by immeww2 » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:00 pm

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Post by debrito » Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:01 pm

Skauser wrote:
debrito wrote:Red Army soldiers referred to Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm as ‘totals’ because they were the product of the total mobilization. Wehrmacht officers called them the ‘casserole’ because they were a mixture of old meat and green vegetables.
]Antony Beevors Berlin ????
yes Antony Beevor, Fall of Berlin 1945.
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Post by Skauser » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:46 am

Have you read Stalingrad .. also by Antony Beevor ? . Stalingrad was the first book and is equally as excellent.
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Post by debrito » Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:08 am

Skauser wrote:Have you read Stalingrad .. also by Antony Beevor ? . Stalingrad was the first book and is equally as excellent.
Best book I have read, I read 2 times in the same year I bought.

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Post by Skauser » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:57 pm

Excellent books . I can highly recommend them to all. Have you ever read anything by the british author David Gemmel ?. I have just finished the Trojan wars trilogy ....great reading mate.
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