At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

Dissertation University of Sheffield. 311 bl. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November ...

Peacekeeping in the late 1990s is a complex and diverse task. Missions involve military, political and humanitarian aspects and, as a result, civilian and military personnel are working together to a greater degree than ever before. Peacekeeping operations in the 1990s have been marked by insufficient military input at the strategic level; unclear mandates; and weak command and control by the UN. In ...

Archief 182_ENG: Inventory 2. Departments and committees of the Jewish Council 2.01.4.1. Evacuation department

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Contains several different types of records, including finding aids for the records of numerous German units (e.g., SS-Artillerie Ersatz-Regiment, München; SS-Artillerie Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Regiment, Prag), held by the Czech Military Historical Institute. Included are individual documents from various files, such as monthly reports and faxes, German personnel reassignment name lists (Veränderungsmeldungen), ...

On May 1, 1941 Hasso von Manteuffel was appointed the commander of the 1st Battalion of 7th Rifle Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division. It was with this unit that he entered World War II, serving under Hermann Hoth’s Panzer Group 3 of the Army Group Centre in Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. On August 25, 1941 he took over the 6th Rifle Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division ...

This article explores the Canadian military entertainment units during World War II (WWII), specifically those formed by the Navy, Army and Air Force from talent found amongst their own personnel. These entertainment units toured extensively in Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe with the goal of increasing the morale of combat troops while encouraging the enlistment of Canada s domestic populations ...

Contains photocopies of documents from Main Military Rabbinate of the Polish Army files concerning organizational regulations, orders, and personal data on rabbis and cantors. Included are a list of secret papers in the Centrale Archiwum Wojskowe; names of military personnel; and documents relating to promotions, hospitals on the front, transfers, soldiers' working and hygienic conditions, and disciplinary ...

Situation of railroad and road transport in Transnistria. Reports of conflicts with the German army personnel. Handling of convoys of Russian prisoners.

(LIB 6480) AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE VISITS 7TH ARMY SECTOR, Dachau, Germany, 8 May 1945. Prisoners (still in their uniforms) and military personnel crowd around Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey wearing the black suit. Inmates watch tour of officials. 00:00:30 CUs of prisoners. 00:00:54 Prisoners salute and cheer for camera while holding up banners. Decorated camp gate after liberation. Caffrey talks to prisoners ...

Orientation Film no. 8. U.S. propaganda film telling the history of Germany with various atrocities and depicting Germans as friendly, trustworthy people. This film was used to demonstrate proper conduct to U.S. military personnel in postwar occupied Germany. Muddy faces of German POWs. CU, Hitler, swastika banners in street, Goebbels concentration camp gates, all "disappear." Ruins, small village. ...

Daily life of the 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp, possibly in the US or in England. Captain Beatrice Wachter (the donor's grandmother) enlisted in June 1943 and departed from Europe on February 26, 1944. A group of men in military uniform and women uniformed as nurses laugh and joke around for the camera. The man with a moustache wears the eagle pin on his cap and the caduceus insignia ...

World in Film. Issue no. 117 (1947) 03:23:14 "Buchenwald Trial, The Sentence." Title: "Prozess Buchenwald: Das Urteil." Entrance to the courthouse at Dachau where the trial is being held. INTs, courtroom showing judges and spectators. Former General of the Waffen SS, Josiah Prinze zu Waldeck, is the first to hear his sentence. All 31 defendants were found guilty. Ilse Koch, the only woman defendant, ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Subject: Gesprekken met naasten van oorlogs-en dienstslachtoffers, waarbij de confrontatie met het ministerie van defensie de rode draad vormt. Ervaringen en verhalen van naasten van militairen die moeten leven met fysieke en mentale beschadigingen t.g.v. WO II, Indië, Indonesië, Bosnië, Libanon, etc. 148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.