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- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
Anyone have a detailed map? Thanks.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...