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by sylvieK4
01 Feb 2011, 12:59
Forum: First World War
Topic: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918
Replies: 18
Views: 3726

Re: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918

Thanks, wm. It is difficult to find a good, detailed map (with citations). I found two general maps. One, posted below, was found on an old message board. It has no citations of who created it or when, or on what exact sources it was based. The second map is from the book "War Land On the Eastern Fr...
by sylvieK4
31 Jan 2011, 02:48
Forum: First World War
Topic: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918
Replies: 18
Views: 3726

Re: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918

Thanks for your post. Yes, that is correct. Apparently there is some confusion regarding the question in the original post. It is not to debate the legitimacy of the so-called Kingdom, or to weigh intentions of the German government. (Those issues are relatively elementary.) Rather, the purpose of t...
by sylvieK4
30 Jan 2011, 22:46
Forum: First World War
Topic: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918
Replies: 18
Views: 3726

Re: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918

Exactly, Dave. Naturally, any rhetoric about an "independent" Poland was empty. That is not in dispute.

Anyone have a detailed map? Thanks.
by sylvieK4
29 Jan 2011, 20:14
Forum: First World War
Topic: Ober Ost Territories, 1915-1918 - History and Maps
Replies: 2
Views: 2877

Ober Ost Territories, 1915-1918 - History and Maps

Can anyone post, or direct me to a map detailing the boundaries of the so-called "Ober Ost" territories? Administered by the German military, these regions in the Balkans and in eastern Poland were, effectively, a buffer zone between Russian territory and German occupied Poland. I am particularly in...
by sylvieK4
29 Jan 2011, 20:03
Forum: First World War
Topic: Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918
Replies: 18
Views: 3726

Kingdom of Poland, 1916-1918

In 1916, the German Governor in Warsaw, Gen. Hans v. Beseler, declared the formation of the "Kingdom of Poland". Apparently designed to limit Polish aspirations for independence in the wake of the Russian withdrawal, the so-called Kingdom was autonomous in name only, and it remained under German adm...
by sylvieK4
28 Jan 2011, 16:56
Forum: Imperial Germany
Topic: Police Official, Ernst v. Glasenapp
Replies: 0
Views: 495

Police Official, Ernst v. Glasenapp

I am looking for information about German Police official, Ernst Reinhold Gerhard von Glasenapp (1861-1928). He served as Chief of Police in Cologne and, during the 1915-1918 occupation of Poland, as the leader of German Police in Warsaw. Any biographical or other historical information about v. Gla...
by sylvieK4
15 Jan 2011, 16:40
Forum: First World War
Topic: German Economic Policy In Poland, 1915-1918
Replies: 13
Views: 770

German Economic Policy In Poland, 1915-1918

Can anyone recommend good, detailed english-language source material that discusses Germany's economic policies in occupied Poland between 1915 and 1918? Thanks.
by sylvieK4
30 Nov 2010, 00:03
Forum: Movies, games & other fiction
Topic: "The King's Speech" - King George VI during WW2
Replies: 9
Views: 1141

Re: "The King's Speech" - King George VI during WW2

I heard about this. I don't know if the treatments / therapy depicted in the film were true-to-period or were ever actually used by George VI to combat his stuttering problem. (I heard that some of the therapies shown were radical at the time and others were possibly invented for the film.) In any e...
by sylvieK4
29 Nov 2010, 23:53
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre
Replies: 26
Views: 1938

Re: Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre

What more evidence do we need? What will it be? Many people didn't think they'd need more evidence than is already available to show that the Nazi regime perpetrated the Holocaust against Jews and others. yet there are still doubters, deniers and other sham artists who try to twist history through ...
by sylvieK4
29 Nov 2010, 18:48
Forum: Movies, games & other fiction
Topic: Chinese War Movies
Replies: 16
Views: 6669

Re: Chinese War Movies

Thanks for posting about these titles. I wish films like these were available on dvd here in the U.S. We can buy some Chinese war films on dvd, but most are fiction-based and/or stories about earlier eras (e.g "Red Cliff", "The Warlords") and stories that only touch on war ("The Emperor and the Assa...
by sylvieK4
29 Nov 2010, 18:36
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre
Replies: 26
Views: 1938

Re: Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre

... And sadly, they probably never will. :(
by sylvieK4
26 Nov 2010, 22:45
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre
Replies: 26
Views: 1938

Russian Duma Says Stalin Ordered Katyn Massacre

I'm sure this is not the end of the controversy, but ... here's the article: See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101126/wl_afp/russiapolandwwiimassacre Russia admits Stalin ordered Katyn massacre of Poles by Dmitry Zaks Dmitry Zaks – 26 November 2010 MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's parliament on Friday decla...
by sylvieK4
24 Nov 2010, 18:01
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Survivor Reunites With Polish Helper
Replies: 0
Views: 177

Survivor Reunites With Polish Helper

Here is a nice story: a Holocaust survivor was reunited on Tuesday (23 Nov. 2010) with the Polish man who helped her and other Jewish prisoners during the war. The survivor, Sara Murmarek, worked in a factory where Wladislaw Misiuna was a supervisor. Misiuna risked his freedom and his life to give f...
by sylvieK4
26 Oct 2010, 21:30
Forum: Life in the Third Reich & Weimar Republic
Topic: Stauffenberg : Hero or villian?
Replies: 164
Views: 16669

Re: Stauffenberg : Hero or villian?

While Beck, Halder, Oster, von Witzleben, von Stülpnagel, Hoepner, von Haase, Canaris, Heinz, von Dohnanyi, Gisevius et al attempted to stop Hitler in September 1938, Daladier and Chamberlain handed him the Sudeten in a silver plate and did nothing to stop him. In fact, they helped him to remain in...
by sylvieK4
26 Oct 2010, 21:24
Forum: Life in the Third Reich & Weimar Republic
Topic: Stauffenberg : Hero or villian?
Replies: 164
Views: 16669

Re: Stauffenberg : Hero or villian?

In 1944, after the devastation he had already brought, after what Axel von dem Busche saw in Dubno in 1942, with the German cities trashed by 8th Air Force by day and the RAF by night and with the Wehrmacht going backwards in all the fronts, with the Soviet propaganda asking for German blood, you d...

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