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OT: German Documents in Russia - 2/26/2016 1:54:54 PM

SigUp

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Perhaps some here have already encountered that website before, but since I found it just recently and thought others may be interested:

http://wwii.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-bestand-500

That website is the site of a project to digitalise captured German documents store in Russia today. It contains a lot of documents, not only about the Wehrmacht, but also documents of the security apparatus or World War I documents.

Some examples:

Study by Erich Marcks on an offensive operation against the Soviet Union

OOB of the Heer 1944-45

Documents of the Ia of Army Group Centre regarding orders for Operation Typhoon

Maps by Fremde Heere Ost with Soviet offensive possibilities

(Interesting here, the last map prior to Bagration. FHO was sure that the major offensive would come out of the Ukrainian balcony towards Lublin and then possibly breaking north towards Warsaw/Bialystok into the rear of Army Group Centre and North)

Combat strength of the German field Army July 1944 - May 1945

Army Group Centre losses from 22nd June to 15th November 1941

(About that last link, some divisions really suffered hideous losses. SS Reich for example until 15th November reported 7.269 casualties, 1.666 dead, 5.438 wounded, 165 missing. Total losses for the army group totaled 316.569 men)

If somebody tries to look for something, here's the Index with search engine. Obviously all documents are in German, sometimes with Russian annotations.

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RE: OT: German Documents in Russia - 2/26/2016 2:37:23 PM

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Very interesting. Too bad my German vocabulary is limited to about 200 words...

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RE: OT: German Documents in Russia - 2/26/2016 2:42:51 PM

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Very interesting! Thanks a lot for this link. Finally it's an advantage to be a german native speaker :-)
Those old texts aren't easy to read and understand.

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RE: OT: German Documents in Russia - 2/26/2016 3:15:31 PM

Wuffer

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Yes, thank you, very interessing documents.
even if you can't understand it, the pure casuality numbers are speaking for themselves.

Original sources like this collection should be the base for any further developments; for example alone the fact how badly the Wehrmacht was trashed even before blizzard.
As said before, the so called 'memories' of some generals published after the war should finally and for ever thrown in the propaganda dustbin...

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