German soldiers unhitch horse from wagon, take wagon. Looting? Soldiers, horses, wagons struggling on muddy road. Soldier whips a horse, wheels get stuck, horses fall over. Mud.

The true story of the Eastern Front in World War II, emphasizing how close Germany came to winning and the USSR to losing. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 470 pages : map ; 25 cm

Memory under occupation : the emergence of competing memories of the Eastern Front. - Cold War : political memory of the Eastern Front in divided Germany. - Lessons of the Eastern Front : the Wehrmacht legacy and the remilitarization of Germany. - Peacetime wars : official memory and the integration of individual wartime experiences. - The past reinforced : the memory of the Eastern Front from Ulbricht ...

Powerful scenes of German army personnel separating villagers (men from women and children), forcing women and children to leave. People are distressed, soldiers are hostile. Families wave goodbye. Women and children move off across wooden bridge.

Bibliogr.: p. 323-340. X, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [300]-308) and index. 336 pages

Oorspr. proefschrift St. Athony's College, 1983. xvi, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

The diary was written by a unknown Austrian soldier on the Eastern Front between 23 September 1941 and 27 December 1941. In the diary the soldier provides very detailed descriptions of daily life and his experiences. On 23 September 1941 he describes witnessing Jews march down the road wearing yellow stars and on 30 September 1941 he describes arriving at an unidentified town where Jews had recently ...

A map shows the location where Hermann Goering is visiting wounded soldiers on the Eastern front. The men are on a train travelling back to Germany. CUs of Goering and smiling wounded troops. Goering is accompanied by a large entourage of officers and several nurses.

Met lit. opg.

256 pages.

Met lit. opg. en reg. XII, 327 p. ; 24 cm.

Met lit.opg., index. VIII, 309 p. : krt. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-248) and index. xv, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Goering's train stopped in a wooded area. Luftwaffe ace Werner Moelders receives a medal. Goering awards the Ritterkreuz to a pilot named Rudolf Nacke, who has flown over 100 missions against the enemy. Werner Moelders, Adolf Galland, Major Oesau, and several other men are also present. The group enters a building, where Goering reviews a map with General Konradt. Brief shot of two soldiers at a s ...

Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of ...

"When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' ...

"A fascinating and detailed account of every aspect of the Waffen-SS's war on the Eastern Front: its battles, its organization, tactics, and equipment. Read what it was like to take part in Operation 'Barbarossa', the opening assault against Russia in the summer of 1941; the clash of massed armor at Kursk; and other epic encounters of war in the East. Ailsby also provides detailed insight into how ...

"From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1944, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hungarian troops to the battle zone of the Soviet Union ... Some 80% of the Jewish forced laborers never returned home. They fell prey to battle, starvation, disease, and grinding labor, aggravated immensely by brutality and even outright murder at the hands of the Hungarian soldiers responsible for them; ...

Met index. XV, 511 p. : ill., tab., krt. ; 24 cm.

Romanian Field Marshal Ion Antonescu deplanes from his JU-52 transport airplane in the Eastern front and shakes hands with Gen. von Manstein in fall or winter 1941 (note gloves and overcoat). Scene of airfield, airplane, line of troops with rifles, men salute and shake hands. Antonescu and other high officers review troops (German and Romanian), cavalrymen next to horses, and weapons. They inspect ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. xiii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Amateur film with German titles shot by a member of the German Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) [State Labor Service] records scenes of cordial contact between Germans of this non-combatant (railway repair?) unit and local Polish and Russian civilians, some female, before the unit entrains for their Eastern Front destination of Stalingrad (not seen) during the German advance in the summer of 1942. Scenes ...