Off to Berlin.
- Thread starter Tyler
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First off... some peculiarities:
Anyone want to guess why two Americans are using a Bren in .303? Beats me.
It looks as though someone did up a home-made supressor for a Nagant, unless I'm seeing things.
Top one is probably French West African troops in Italy or Southern France...
Bottom one could be a Djakanov Grenade Launcher...
So here's a bunch of stuff from the German-Russian Museum at Karlshorst:
I highly reccomend this place for anyone going to the Berlin area. Admission was free and they give you a guide book in English down in the basement coat room.
The outside: This place was built as an officer's mess for the Army Pioneers back in the 1930's. There's a few T-34's, artillery pieces, and a Katyusha launcher outside, but as you can see there was a lot of snow, so they were well covered.
An original copy of Mein Kamp, not *the* original, but original in the sense that it was among the first printed.
Arty shot table in aluminum. Couldn't tell what calibre of gun it was for.
Below it, assorted rockets, shells, and mortars.
German infantry kit:1939
Close up on the MG-34 and its selective fire double trigger.
A milsurp collectors dream, however the K98's bolt was electropenciled to match:
A copy of the original ops map for Barbarosa.
Soviet kit:
Propaganda:
Campaign Medals, Soviet and German:
Nazi commemerative plates:
I highly reccomend this place for anyone going to the Berlin area. Admission was free and they give you a guide book in English down in the basement coat room.
The outside: This place was built as an officer's mess for the Army Pioneers back in the 1930's. There's a few T-34's, artillery pieces, and a Katyusha launcher outside, but as you can see there was a lot of snow, so they were well covered.
An original copy of Mein Kamp, not *the* original, but original in the sense that it was among the first printed.
Arty shot table in aluminum. Couldn't tell what calibre of gun it was for.
Below it, assorted rockets, shells, and mortars.
German infantry kit:1939
Close up on the MG-34 and its selective fire double trigger.
A milsurp collectors dream, however the K98's bolt was electropenciled to match:
A copy of the original ops map for Barbarosa.
Soviet kit:
Propaganda:
Campaign Medals, Soviet and German:
Nazi commemerative plates:
The special thing about this building is that it is where Field Marshall Keitel, Admiral von Friedeburg, and Colonel-General Stumpf ratified the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces in May of 1945.
Here's the room:
Gen Zhukov's study:
One of his uniforms:
Closer:
There's a section dedicated to the post war occupation and the building's use during East German rule, I found this cool poster as well:
Here's the room:
Gen Zhukov's study:
One of his uniforms:
Closer:
There's a section dedicated to the post war occupation and the building's use during East German rule, I found this cool poster as well:
