Couple of questions
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Couple of questions
1) Are there reenactments in UK and Europe anywhere?
2) Can women join?
2) Can women join?
- Mak Los Mien Schnitzel
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There are plenty, it all depends on which side you are thinking of.
Here is a great one for Axis and Allies all around the world:
http://www.kompanie1.co.uk/12thss/links.htm
As far as women are concerned, most do not allow women in front line units, as there is a historical basis for this, however, there are plenty of uniformed women in these units.
Here is a great one for Axis and Allies all around the world:
http://www.kompanie1.co.uk/12thss/links.htm
As far as women are concerned, most do not allow women in front line units, as there is a historical basis for this, however, there are plenty of uniformed women in these units.
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Thats because there were African, Asian and Mideastern volunteers in the German army. Only a handful of Africans and German blacks but many Middle-easterner and some Asians.Eden Zhang wrote:I just find it weird that I've heard stories of men of Asian and African origins dressed as Panzergrenadiers, but many don't allow women.
Just a though.
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Yes that is correct, in fact I should know as I am one of them
I reenact a chinese exchange unteroffizer in the 352nd defending the beach head at normandy where this lovely quote comes from:
Another quote from a friend of mine, a Royal engineer who landed on sword beach in 1944 : D-day
http://www.geocities.com/alvinlee_81/WarPics1.html
Eden, you in Oz then? I'm coming back to Melbourne in March.
I reenact a chinese exchange unteroffizer in the 352nd defending the beach head at normandy where this lovely quote comes from:
http://www.worldwariihistory.info/in/USSR.html
The Wehrmacht in Normandy in June of 1944 was an international army. It had troops from every corner of the vast Soviet empire -- Mongolians, Cossacks, Georgians, Muslims, Chinese ... captured by the Germans in 1941 or 1942. There were some Koreans, captured by the Red Army in the 1939 war with Japan. In Normandy in June 1944, the 29th Division captured enemy troops of so many different nationalities that one GI blurted to his company commander, "Captain, just who the hell are we fighting, anyway?"
Another quote from a friend of mine, a Royal engineer who landed on sword beach in 1944 : D-day
If you're still skeptical, check this out, 6 pages of photos:You asked about the capture of prisoners of war with Chinese or Mongolian appearance? We captured so many with what appeared to be Mongolian features, that we carried them to the rear in lorries with boards up the sides just like carrying hay. So many, lorry after lorry load, many of them quite happy to be taken prisoner, sadly, we learned in later years that they were repatriated to the land of their birth, and legend has it that they were all executed, but I have no first hand knowledge of that. Certainly we captured very many. I am unable to say exactly what nationality they were.
http://www.geocities.com/alvinlee_81/WarPics1.html
Eden, you in Oz then? I'm coming back to Melbourne in March.
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