Oh, tell me how to do that. At the moment I try to get some information's of F.F.I troops who executed 80 German PoW's. I know place and date. The Wehrmacht-Untersuchungsstelle (WUSt) documented war crimes but the files were cleared up after the war. Beside that the WUSt documented primary war crimes of regular troops. Partisans were criminals and not an army. There was no reason to document their crimes for court martial because after international law they could be executed. So it's difficult to find the information's I want.medorjurgen wrote:Well, I wouldn't rely on the newspapers and TV to teach me history, but if you're interested you can get rather close to historical truth with a little research effort, in my opinion.
In a forest near Halbe were found a great number of gasmasks and remains of corpses with buttons of German uniforms. At a place nearby another 20.000 German solders were found. They presume that the Russians massacred the German soldiers, took the equipment and left the useless gasmasks. The forest in Halbe is protected by the German gouvernment and civil guards. A research is not possible. I know you'll ask me for the sources of this. I did no digging there but a friend of mine mailed me that story some days ago. He said he took some photos of the place.
I'll read the new catalogue. And if it's really dry stuff I can moisten it with a tasty beer.You should read the new catalogue. They really made an effort at being as objective as possible this time. Nothing sensationalist about it, on the contrary. It's so dry that it's almost boring.