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Any help in locating this German field hospital is appreciated. The place looks like the ruins of a Roman theater...

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Thank you very much for your kind comments and for the beautiful postcards that you have added to the thread.
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Hi everibody, Hi Karl.

Reviewing my archive, I had forgotten to upload this photo from my collection. If you are interested in the subject of German triage, you may find it interesting. The...

Hello Karlzv.
Of course yes! I will be delighted that you upload your photos to this thread, it will be a pleasure for me to see them here.
If you prefer, you can also open a new thread and show us...

Well that´s all folks.

I know that my effort have served to help you all to spend some of these hours of confinement in our homes.

To all my friends and comrades in the forum all over the...

On July 17, 1944, 57,000 German POWs paraded through the streets of Moscow, captured mostly in Belarus after the summer offensive that led to the annihilation of Army Group Center.

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Although the problem would be much more serious for the soldiers who, after the defeats of Stalingrad or in the summer of 1944, become POW of the Soviets.

Following the capitulation of the German...

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Most likely this sign was in the city of Smolensk. Because the one in this other photograph indicating the other disinfection station is that city.

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I can...

Some were next to the hospitals and many near the train stations, which was the place of greatest transit for the troops. In cities like Smolensk or other large logistics and health centers in...

So the Wehrmacht had to first create and later reinforce an extensive network of disinfection and delousing stations for the troops. The truth is that it was never enough to eliminate the plague, but...

So in addition to having Panzerjäger and Gebirsjägers there began to be hundreds of thousands of Läusejäger: lice hunters on the eastern front....

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As we can see, the forced lack of hygiene in the winter caused a very serious health problem and an overload of work for the Ostheer's medical services.

This would mean greater saturation in field...

It is interesting at this time to make two quotes from David Stahel. One from his book "Operation Typhoon" and the other from "The Battle for Moscow"

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Operation Typhoon.- “The homes of...

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These two German officers think that they are finally going to be able to sleep quietly for a while inside this house of some Ukrainian peasants: clean straw and some blankets.

As what...

But everything began to change when at the end of September the east wind began to bring the aroma of Russian autumn. With it would come rain and mud first, and later snow and cold. Then the soldiers...

For a soldier, washing with soap and water, shaving and cutting their hair regularly, and being able to wash their underwear and have a change of clean clothes, were, together with adequate food, a...

But just as it happened in 1940, men and animals could wash and refresh in the countless rivers that appeared as they advanced east and the nights were warm and the soldiers could sleep outdoors...

But the story was very different when the invasion of the USSR occurred in June 1941.
The country turned out to be hellishly hot in the months of June to August and the dust covered absolutely...

This may seem easy to achieve in times of peace in the huge barracks facilities spread across the entire Reich territory, and it should not even have been difficult during the 1939 and 1940...