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German Radio collection

Saturday, August 29th, 2009
LA6NCA-WW2-RADIO-PAGE

WW2 German radio collection. All radios are operative. Kw.E.a, T9K39-main, E52b, Lo6K39a, Torn.Fu.b1, Torn.E.b, Fu.NP.E a/c, Fu.H.E.c, Fu.H.E.u1. d

One of may favorite sites, run by a group of Norwegian electronics enthusiasts. A fantastic collection of German World War  Two radio & communication equipment can be found on LA6NCA’s WW2 Radio Page at http://www.laud.no/ww2/. This impressive collection includes all types of communication equipment from the German armed forces in WW2, including army, navy and air-force equipment. Some of the more interesting items include the Li Spr 8; which could tansfer an audio signal using a light beam across terrian too difficult to lay cables over. The website has some great period photos of communication equipment in use. Much of the restored equipment is fully working and there are some impressive videos demonstrating some of the devices in use.

Link - http://www.laud.no/ww2/

also see: Foundation for German communication and related technologies
(History of Technology)

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Visiting the Maginot Line

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
In this April 5, 2009 photo, a couple walks along an armored turret at the Hackenberg fortress, in Eastern France. In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along Frances border with Germany, from Belgium to Switzerland, designed to stop the Nazi onslaught and prevent a repeat of the bloody trench warfare of World War I. (AP Photo/Slobodan Lekic) (AP)

In this April 5, 2009 photo, a couple walks along an armored turret at the Hackenberg fortress, in Eastern France. In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France's border with Germany, from Belgium to Switzerland, designed to stop the Nazi onslaught and prevent a repeat of the bloody trench warfare of World War I. (AP Photo/Slobodan Lekic) (AP)

The fortifications of the Maginot Line stretching across the old French German border provide a wealth of opportunities to visit the many preserved and restored bunkers and fortifications. Often situated in unspoiled and breath taking county side. For any one interested in fortifications of the period they present many opportunities for visits that can take in the Maginot Line, its sister fortifications along the French Italian boarder and the German Siegfried Line.

“Unfortunately, the Maginot Line failed to prevent France’s crushing defeat in May 1940, when the invading Nazis simply bypassed it by breaking through Belgian defenses in the north and trapping the hapless French, British and Belgian armies. The Germans later turned on the line and captured it from the rear, taking more than 500,000 prisoners.”

via – Visiting the Maginot Line: Relic of World War II

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Photographer’s legacy alive in WWII shots

Saturday, August 1st, 2009
With German shells screaming overhead, American infantrymen take shelter behind a tank. In the background can be seen the ruins of the town of Geich, Germany, which is still under heavy shelling.

With German shells screaming overhead, American infantrymen take shelter behind a tank. In the background can be seen the ruins of the town of Geich, Germany, which is still under heavy shelling.

A glimpse of US 9th Infantry Division in WWII. Photographs taken by Harold Roberts, and shown at a reunion recently show so fascinating moments from the division’s drive into Germany.

“As a combat photographer with the Army Signal Corps, Harold Roberts was an eyewitness to some of the most powerful scenes in the history of 20th century warfare. His photos capture scenes that words can’t describe, some so graphic that they can’t be published in a family newspaper.”

via Photographer’s legacy alive in WWII shots – Bangor Daily News.

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Poland marks 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Mieczyslaw Jedruszczakis in front the wall that was used to pen in hundreds of thousands of Jews in central Warsaw From the AFP – WARSAW (AFP) — Poland was Tuesday commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, an ill-fated Jewish revolt against the occupying Nazi Germans which marked a symbolic stand against the Holocaust.

Ceremonies were to begin at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) with the lighting of candles at the site of the notorious “Umschlagplatz”, from where the Nazis sent more than 300,000 Jews by train to the Treblinka death camp, 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the northeast.

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Germany Plans Center on WWII Expulsions

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The Associated Press: Germany Plans Centre on WWII Expulsions:

“Germany Plans Center on WWII Expulsions BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet adopted a plan Wednesday for a $45.5 million museum to commemorate the plight of Germans uprooted from their homes in eastern Europe after World War II.

The program comes after years of heated debate with Germany’s neighbours on how best to memorialise the hardship suffered by millions of Germans left homeless after borders shifted westward in 1945, without diminishing the crimes of the Nazis during the war.”

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March to honor German combat units during World War II in Latvia

Monday, March 17th, 2008

March 16 had been an official Waffen SS national remembrance day in Latvia till 2000

RIGA, Latvia: Thousands of people marched through this capital Sunday under heavy police protection to honor countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II.

Soviet forces occupied the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in June 1940, but were driven out by the Germans a year later. The Red Army retook the Baltics in 1944 and incorporated them into the Soviet Union. About 250,000 Latvians ended up fighting alongside either the Germans or Soviet forces in World War II. About 150,000 Latvians died in the fighting.

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