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Dr. Harro Brenner, 2 PhD, 1 masters. PhD in political science. PhD in Law. Masters degree in Economics. Brenner was an unusual figure even among the officers who fought in the Afrika Korps. A double doctorate in law and political science, a former Foreign Office official, and a man who had worked in the highest circles of the German political establishment, he might have been expected to remain far from the front. Instead, he found himself commanding infantry in one of the most mobile and improvised formations of the North African campaign. As commander of the infantry company of Kampfstaffel "Kasta," the mobile combat formation associated with Rommel's headquarters, Brenner was entrusted with the leadership of a relatively small force at a moment when the front was under severe pressure. The Kasta was an unusual formation, capable of being rapidly committed to threatened sectors and employed wherever the situation demanded immediate reinforcement. Between 20 and 23 March 1943, his actions helped prevent an Allied penetration that threatened the rear of the German 1st Army. The award citation specifically credited him with making a major contribution to stopping this breakthrough. #sword_and_pen https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Germany vs Poland in fencing and boxing. A part of reapproachment attempt between NS Germany and Poland between 1933-39 were the bilteral sports competition. A very important and useful research will soon be posted. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Germany vs Poland in fencing and boxing. A part of reapproachment attempt between NS Germany and Poland between 1933-39 were the bilteral sports competition. A very important and useful research will soon be posted. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

An Army of Rapists. Red Army sexual violence in 1944–45 is still routinely framed as revenge against Germans for the destruction of the Soviet Union. But the victims did not stop at German women. Soviet soldiers raped Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, malnourished Jewish women emerging from camps, Soviet women liberated from forced labour, and; months later, Japanese women. In An Army of Rapists, I explain the violence across Europe and into Asia and answer the question usually avoided: if German guilt was supposedly the cause, why did the rapes continue when the German woman disappeared from the scene entirely? https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

"They Raped Me Repeatedly" Daniel L. Culler was a young American airman who expected the end of his combat mission to mean safety. Instead, after his B-24 was forced to land in neutral Switzerland, he entered one of the darkest episodes experienced by an American serviceman in wartime Switzerland. Culler was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer and top-turret gunner with the USAAF. He had already completed 24 combat missions over Europe when, on his 25th mission, his aircraft was hit by German flak and was forced to land at Dübendorf near Zürich on 18 March 1944. Culler was interned in Wauwilermoos camp in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. He was placed in a barracks containing Soviet prisoners. Switzerland received Soviet soldiers who had escaped German POW camps. According to Culler's testimony, he was subjected to repeated sexual assaults by several of his fellow prisoners. He described being restrained by several men while another assaulted him, with the attackers taking turns. He recalled being left bleeding and believing that he might die. It is interesting to know that Rape (against enemy and against one's own comrades) and Beating of conscripts (Dedovschina) are the oldest continuesly surviving Russian military traditions, surviving through Imperial Era, Soviet era and now the Federation era. It is even older than the Officer Tradition as it was abolished for few years during the initial Soviet era. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Second Battle of Târgu Frumos Elements of Grossdeutschland and Totenkopf. German formations claimed more than 350 Soviet tanks destroyed during the principal fighting, with the 24th Panzer Division alone claiming approximately 100. Wave after wave of Soviet infantry and tanks pressed forward, attempting to break through toward Jasy, only to encounter carefully prepared positions and rapidly moving German armored counterattacks through an active defense. (Withdrawal and counterattack) That was precisely why the battle acquired an unexpected second life after 1945. During the Cold War, Western military analysts looked back to Târgu Frumos as a possible historical model for defending West Germany against a Warsaw Pact offensive. A 1984 manuscript by Albert explicitly titled Defensive Blitzkrieg 1944: Targul Frumos and Its Implications for NATO. The central Cold War problem was essentially: How can a numerically inferior NATO force stop a Soviet-style echeloned armored offensive? Târgu Frumos provided a historical case study. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

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Władysław Sikorski: The Man at the Centre. Władysław Sikorski had a problem: he could not simply be important. He needed everyone around him to know that he was important; and, more importantly, to keep telling him so. Such was the childish attitude of a man who held the fate of 25 million Poles in his hand while Poland was under a double occupation. British diplomats described his vanity as "colossal." Polish colleagues called him egocentric, pompous, and jealous of rivals. Beneath the statesman was something considerably less dignified: an almost relentless hunger for recognition. It eventually brought a doom on him and Poland. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Polish concentration camps during WW2. What happens when a government loses its country, but still retains the power to punish its own people? In 1939 Poland was partitioned, its army shattered, and millions of its citizens left under German and Soviet occupation. Yet even before the government-in-exile had rebuilt an effective military force, Władysław Sikorski’s administration was already putting his own political opponents and Polish officers in camps. The contradiction was striking: a government claiming to embody the lawful Polish state was prepared to punish its own officers without ordinary judicial safeguards. Sikorski expressed the logic with chilling clarity: "There is no Polish judiciary, and those who engage in intrigues will end up in a concentration camp." https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Never smoked and you should not either but for sake of history this looks cool. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

One of the most hilarious things I've recently read: A lot of local Dutch were used as extras in the movie A Bridge Too Far. Cornelis Mulder (65) was hired because he had such an "authentic German face" and portrayed his role so convincingly. In an interview with a local newspaper, however, the man stated that he was still a convinced SS member. He called his role "the chance of his life," because his wish to once again appear as an officer of his old corps had now been fulfilled. If that was not enough for this former Dutch SS volunteer, Mulder also went against the orders by walking around outside of filming hours in the uniform. Film director Richard Attenborough said he was "terribly shocked" by the interview. He immediately broke off all contact with Mulder. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Case Blue. Smoking while Stukas work overhead. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht

Klooga, Estonia, Cutting of the beard and sidelocks of Jews.

Deniers will say it’s fake! SS men riding the Holocoaster. (Treblinka excavator)

The Soviet Toropets–Kholm Offensive, launched on 9 January 1942, struck a German front that was already severely weakened by the winter fighting of 1941–42. The Soviet 3rd Shock Army achieved a rapid breakthrough and pushed deep into the German rear, capturing Toropets on 21 January and threatening the communications between Army Group North and Army Group Centre. The German response was initially improvised. The formations holding the sector were too weak to seal the enormous penetration, so German commanders rushed whatever forces were available into the threatened area. Alarm units, rear-area personnel, security troops, replacement formations, artillery units and elements detached from other divisions were thrown into the fighting. The Soviet advance created several dangerous pockets and isolated German positions. The most famous was Kholm, where approximately 5,000–6,000 German and auxiliary troops became surrounded. The garrison was ordered to hold the town as a Fester Platz (fortified place). It resisted for months despite being surrounded, relying heavily on the Luftwaffe for resupply. Kholm held until May 1942, when German forces finally established a land corridor to the garrison. https://t.me/Penzberger_traumnacht