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Entering Russia, 1941:

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Staying in Russia, 1944:

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Leaving Russia, 1955:

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They've aged a lot. Think only about 5000 made the return trip. The Soviets were nasty and who could blame them? Had a German guy here , who apparently survived Soviet captivity. Too bad i didn't know till after he died, would have been an interesting chat. ?

Grizz
 
An old landlord of mine had been a baker in the army im der Ost and scooped up in 1945. He was among those released in 1955. Came straight to Canada and worked like a dog, bought an apartment building, and retired wealthy. His son taught my boy German in high school.

He was a good guy who baked bread and liked people. Army's got all types.
 
Interesting these German auxiliary cruiser missions were generally south of the equator, during both the first and second world wars. Would have been a suicide mission in the north Atlantic.

Grizz

The Emden was destroyed in combat in the South Pacific, & the Wolf plied its trade (minelaying , capturing prize ships & cargo) again mostly South of the equator in the Pacific, steaming the equivalent of 73,000 miles. They knew full well the British appropriated every suitable warship New Zealand and Australia had for Mediterranean & Northeast Atlantic duty.

The British had Room 40 and were fearful the Germans would find out about it. This would have been a disaster. So what they did was get their MI6 scum in English language newspapers to publish garbage stories about impoverished Australians of German descent somehow secretly laying minefields with up to sixty mines during their spare time using dinghies & small fishing boats. Hundreds of ppl. were being killed by these German minefields & the Australian & New Zealand strategy was ethinic cleansing. There were a few barely afloat, over due for the scrapyard Australian naval vessels available for littoral defence, same for New Zealand. Loyal Australian & New Zealand citizens of German descent were thrown into internment camps. How many I wonder were murdered raped robbed etc due to indignation? No wonder there is a lot of residual hatred for Brits throughout the world.

None of this ethnic cleansing based homeland defence brought back people who lost their lives due to the real German minefields, which were a low priority to be swept. Also the Australian PM at this time belonged in a mental institution from what is known about him. Related to Sam Hughes?

This type of ethnic cleansing based warfare seemed to have been par for the course in that era. Greece Vs. Turkey is an example. The 'recently discovered' underground city in a region of Turkey which was used up to 1922 as a place of refuge for ethnic Greeks in Turkey is of interest. God only knows what artifacts might have been found down there, Turk archaeologists have been studying these underground cities for some time now.

Naval intel in the region were ordered to say that there was no special hazard to navigation from these minefields. There was not even a serious attempt to clear these minefields in a timely fashion. One captain of an auxilliary minesweeper who was appointed with his ship and crew to make sweeps in one of the suspected areas had a nervous breakdown when one of the swept mines exploded a little too close to his auxilliary minesweeper. The guy was a wreck. CIS victim. That was the end of his naval reservist career.
 
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The CF-5 / CF-116:

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Always liked these. A trim little thing, and mach capable.

This is interesting:

When South Vietnam was overrun by NVA forces on 30 April 1975, approximately 877 aircraft were captured by the communists. Of that number, 87 were reported as F-5As and 27 were F-5Es. In November of that year the Soviets were offered the opportunity to select from the captured U.S. equipment. The Soviets quickly loaded one complete F-5, along with two complete spare engines, any and all spare parts, and all ground support equipment onto a waiting Soviet cargo ship. Several of the F-5s left over from the Vietnam War were sent to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and then Soviet Union, for advanced study of U.S. aviation technology, while others were decommissioned and put on display at museums in Vietnam. The 935th Fighter Regiment of the VPAF 372nd Air Division was the only unit in the world flying both MiG-21 and F-5 fighters. Eventually, the lack of spare parts grounded all the captured aircraft, but in May 2017 it was reported that Vietnam is considering refurbishing some of these aircraft and putting them back into service.

Wonder if that ever happened...
 
Keeps nasties away from your Nazis. :)

The Horch 901 was widely used by the Germans during the war.

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From Russia to Africa (and back again) the Horch hauled the goods. Quite a few built, most of them used up, but there were survivors. Sadly, you're too late to buy this one:

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/132003/index.html

My father served through the war a permanent force type (infantry) and stayed on with the Occupation Force.. between Holland and Willemshaven/ Bremerhaven. He got involved in soem war crimes stuff as well as with charges laid against Canadian senior offficers - one was a guy who had commandeered a Dutch residents home for his own use (along with servants and cooks) and another I recall vaguely was a ‘Brigadier’ who had come across a German convoy withdrawing into Germany with among other things a Horch staff car and various ‘acquired valuables’ .... the senior officer was charged when the Horch (containing some of the ‘booty’) was found on the docks in one of the Dutch ports being prepared for shipment to the Brigadiers home - a farm in ‘western’ Canada
 
They've aged a lot. Think only about 5000 made the return trip. The Soviets were nasty and who could blame them? Had a German guy here , who apparently survived Soviet captivity. Too bad i didn't know till after he died, would have been an interesting chat. ?

Grizz

My Panzer-Grenadier FIL came back in 1951, a man broken in health and spirit. He got out of Stalingrad only to be captured by partisans who turned him over to the red Army. He died a bitter man. Civilian occupation - piano tuner.
 
The CF-5 / CF-116:

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Always liked these. A trim little thing, and mach capable.

This is interesting:


Wonder if that ever happened...
from personal observation and experience on the ground -
I would recommend that one decline their services if they offer to provide ‘close air support’ .
 
Ah yes, the CF-5 was always one of my favourite planes. Used to see them at many airshows and the pilots always put on a good performance with them. Very slick machine.
 
^^^Seeing as how the Iranians described their "new" fighter as "Mach 1.2 capable at 40,000 feet", AND that they had been supplied F-5's by the US in the 60's, methinks that it IS nothing more than a repainted F-5.

I always wanted to fly f-5's, but sadly my eyesight went for shyt in my teenage years.........:(:(
 
^^^Seeing as how the Iranians described their "new" fighter as "Mach 1.2 capable at 40,000 feet", AND that they had been supplied F-5's by the US in the 60's, methinks that it IS nothing more than a repainted F-5.

I always wanted to fly f-5's, but sadly my eyesight went for shyt in my teenage years.........:(:(

I grew up in the area where you can see CF5 CF104 T33 CF101 and even the odd CF100 flying on a daily basis. I still miss seeing and hearing the infamous howl of the CF 104
 
The wreck of the SMS Emden aground in the Cocos Islands

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German Author and WWI vet Theodor Plievier

while undergoing his transformation to an anti war activist:

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After much more life experience:

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More on who he was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Plievier

He served on the SMS Wolf during her epic circumnavigation of the globe during WWI. By the time of the German naval mutiny marking the start of the German Revolution he was trending heavily towards socialism/communism. Hitler burned his books after taking power. Leaving Germany, he later wrote about the Battle of Stalingrad & as it was (again) not hackwritten propaganda, he was encouraged to leave the USSR. Stalin only wanted hackwriters like HItler I suppose.
 

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They were master strokes of propaganda designed to boost morale and make the German population believe in their invulnerability as a nation, a warning to the world.

Much like the parades put on by China and North Korea. It inculcates the "group think" mentality.
 
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