But the superiority of the Wehrmacht was not only quantitative:it was ready for aggression. His troops were concentrated in compact groupings that had everything necessary for operations. The soldiers and officers had combat experience, they had been to the school of fire in the west and in the sout
The Secretary of State for War (War Department) commissioned Whitworth to find a successor to the Enfield 1853 carbine in caliber 14.66 mm, whose recent Crimean war had just shown the disadvantages. The Whitworth rifle had a lower bore (11 mm) and a hexagonal section; the bullets, elongated, had a s
We are looking for the traces of Heinrich Schitz just outside the city of Munich in Feldaffing. A former SS doctor who lived here after his trial. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for complicity in the murder of 11 people. Only these could be proved. But his victims were much more – mostly pr
As is known, the missiles current had as precursors to the projectiles V-1 and V-2 developed by the Luftwaffe (the German air force) since the 1930s, under the Nazi government , and put into service after 1944. The V-1 made its test flight in late 1941 and saw action in June 1944 targeting London,