Wehrmacht

The development of the German armed forces during the Third Reich, including political events where they were involved.



Doug Collins, an award-winning journalist, has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. He served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. For more about Collins, see the Nov.-Dec. 1994 Journal, …

Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, University Press of Kansas, ISBN: 0700611789, 528 pp., $29.95 On December 2, 1996, The Daily Telegraph reported briefly about a research work by the American Bryan M. Rigg …

Unter diesem Titel publizierte die britische Tageszeitung The Daily Telegraph am 2.12.1996 einen Artikel über die Arbeit des US-Studenten Bryan Rigg (25 Jahre, Yale Universität) über Juden in der Wehrmacht. Demnach stellte die Wehrmacht im Januar 1944 eine Liste mit 77 hochrangigen Offizieren jüdischen oder gemischt jüdisch-deutschen Blutes zusammen, darunter …

In this five minute video, rare WW2 footage of the German Wehrmacht (Defence Forces) is depicted. Hitler is shown reviewing his soldiers and the elite parachute troops.