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The German 6th Army was a field army which was created after the Franco-Prussian war and the German unification by the second half of the 19th century. The glorious 6th Army had its baptism of fire during World War I and its nemesis during World War II at the hands of the Russian winter, collapsing at the [...]
Unternehmen Bodenplatte ( Operation Baseplate in English), was a World War II German military operation launched by the Luftwaffe on January 1, 1945, to support the German ground troops fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. Bodenplatte was an attempt by the Luftwaffe to impair Allied air forces in the Low Countries and France. Although [...]
Operation Währung, or Unternehmen Währung in German, was a secret operation conducted by intensively and specially trained Germans who infiltrated behind Allied lines by parachute. They spoke fluent American English and wore American uniforms. Once behind enemy lines, the German operatives used an existing Nazi intelligence network to bribe rail and port workers to disrupt Allied supply [...]
Otto Skorzeny (1908 – 1975) was an Austrian Waffen-SS officer who served during World War II. He commanded Operation Eiche, which was a rescue mission that freed the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity. Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna, Austria, on June 12, 1908. His family had a long history of military service. He [...]
Operation Greif was one of two secret special operations carried out by the 150th SS Panzer Brigade, under the command of Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the Ardennes Offensive in World War II; the other was Opertion Währung. Operation Greif began on December 16, 1944, when English-speaking German soldiers, dressed in American uniforms and wearing [...]
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The Fallschirmjäger were the highly professional German paratroopers who fought with bravery and skill during the Second World War. They were the first airborne soldiers in history to be deployed in large-scale airborne operations. The German paratroopers were known as the "Green Devils" because of the ferocity with which they into battle. Their commander during [...]
