#Panzerdivision

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Generalmajor Erwin Rommel et le Colonel Karl Rothenburg, Commandant du 25e Régiment de Panzer de la 7e Panzerdivision (2e à gauche) – Bataille de France – Juin 1940

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»KONSPIRANTINNEN. Frauen im Widerstand 1939-1945«

»KONSPIRANTINNEN. Frauen im Widerstand 1939-1945« - Ein #Dokumentarfilm von #Paul_Meyer mit nachdrücklichen Eindrücken der polnischen Kämpferinnen des #Warschauer_Aufstand-es vor 80 Jahren, die im #Emslandlager VI #Oberlangen als Kriegsgefangene interniert wurden, bis sie 1945 von der polnischen Exilarmee befreit wurden.

Im Emsland geboren, hatte der Regisseur Paul Meyer schon als Kind von Oberlangen gehört, wo es ein Kriegsgefangenenlager für Frauen gab. So etwas hatte es bis dahin noch nie gegeben. Der Grund: Im Kapitulationsvertrag des Warschauer Nationalaufstands von 1944 (1.8.-2.10.1944) wurden die weiblichen Aufständischen als Kombattanten den männlichen gleichgestellt und entsprechend der Genfer Konvention…

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German Panzer IV Ausf D of the 9. Panzerdivision advances through the Netherlands, May 1940.

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Heer (German army) motorcyclists of the 1. Panzerdivision approach Leningrad, 1941

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Nicola Trahan, who has died aged 97, joined the French resistance as a schoolgirl and was awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palme for her bravery during “numerous dangerous missions”, in particular a series of battles between her Maquis and the notorious 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich. After the second world war she settled in the UK, where she served with the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA) for 50 years.

Aged 16, while still at school in Valençay, Indre, in central France, she joined the Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI), the resistance organisation run by the Gaullist French authorities in London and known as the Armée Secrète.

According to her French military file, Trahan became a member of the North Indre Maquis, led by Francis Perdriset, a former French army officer who took charge of FFI resistance operations in that area in July 1943. Her main role was as a courier delivering messages twice daily between the various resistance teams.

She also worked as part of the Maquis’ medical team and, amid a heavy German military presence, used her trips cycling between the teams to collect intelligence. A note in a file has one resistance fighter telling another that Trahan would sometimes be late because she liked to sit by the road watching the Germans while eating her lunch. “Don’t worry,” he said. “It provides us with valuable information.”

In an interview with a French newspaper following the liberation of France, Trahan said that once when she was stopped by the Germans she screwed up her FFI identity pass into a ball and swallowed it to avoid arrest. She also recalled taking part in firefights and on one occasion shooting and wounding two German soldiers: “I really liked ambushes; when we put together a team and went off in full truckloads. I had a revolver and a machine gun.”

In July 1944, Perdriset and his Maquis began working closely with a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer Pearl Witherington (later Cornioley), who was also based in North Indre.

Witherington had set up the SOE’s Wrestler circuit in May that year. But on 11 June, five days after the D-day landings, she and the small number of resistance fighters she had assembled were attacked by a much larger German force. They fought them off but Witherington decided she needed an experienced military officer to help her to reorganise her forces.

“Finally, on 25 July [1944], after I had asked repeatedly for a military commander, to my great relief one arrived,” she recalled in her memoirs. “He was an army captain called Francis Perdriset.”

From that point on, the North Indre Maquis was closely integrated with the SOE Wrestler team. Trahan recalled meeting Witherington once, at a parachute drop of weapons and other supplies, where resistance members would have been called upon to remove the supplies to a safe location.

Shortly after Perdriset took over as Witherington’s military commander, elements of the German 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich arrived in the region on their way north to Normandy, having been ordered to destroy the resistance along the way.

They had previously massacred an entire village at Oradour-sur-Glane and, from mid-August, launched a series of attacks against resistance groups in the Indre area, most notably in Valençay itself, where Perdriset was present.

“The Germans did a lot of damage in Valençay,” Witherington recalled. “I wasn’t there but Francis was. He was told to stand against a wall, he really thought he had had it. The Germans set fire to things, shot, killed. It wasn’t as bad as Oradour-sur-Glane but it wasn’t a pretty sight.”

In his recommendation for the award of the Croix de Guerre, Perdriset said Trahan, then only 17, “notably distinguished herself at Valençay from 20 to 30 August 1944 by bringing her commander valuable information which she gathered at the heart of enemy operations”.

Born Nicole in Berck-sur-Mer, in the Pas de Calais, she was the daughter of André Trahan, who worked in the insurance industry, and Jeanne (nee Bourzes), a professor of English.

Nicole initially boarded at the Collège Cévenol at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in south-central France. She later recalled that her parents took her to the UK when the Germans occupied northern France in 1940, but by 1942 she was at Cours Guynemer, a private school in Valençay.

After the war, Trahan went to the Sorbonne to study philosophy but, having decided that it was not for her, she trained as a nurse at the Ecole d’Infirmières des Associations Diaconesses in Paris, and at Brighton General hospital, in East Sussex, qualifying in 1953. She subsequently worked as a health visitor in Cheshire. She anglicised her name from Nicole to Nicola and was naturalised British in 1957.

The following year she joined SSAFA, first as a member of its nursing service, then as a health visitor working with service families in Germany, Belgium and Hong Kong. Trahan served with the association for 30 years and after retirement continued to work for them as a volunteer for a further 20 years.

Trahan settled in Orcheston, Wiltshire, where she was also a volunteer at Salisbury Cathedral, and enjoyed swimming and walking her dog.

In 2005, she was invited to the unveiling by Queen Elizabeth II of the monument in Whitehall to The Women of World War II, followed by a lunch for female veterans at Buckingham Palace. In 2008 she was appointed MBE.

Nicola (Nicole) Marie Pauline Trahan, resistance fighter and nurse, born 21 December 1926; died 18 January 2024

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Liste de massacres perpétrés par les allemands en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Juin 1940

le 7

Airaines (Somme) : exécution sommaire du capitaine N'Tchoréré, officier français refusant d'être séparé de ses camarades officiers blancs, par un feldwebel allemand du 25e régiment d'infanterie allemande.

Beaufort-en-Santerre (Somme) : une trentaine d'hommes du 41e régiment d'infanterie sont capturés, rassemblés dans un champ et passés par les armes.

le 8

Dromesnil (Somme) : l'armée allemande exécute, en violation de la Convention de Genève de 1929, les soldats africains de l'armée française qu'elle avait faits prisonniers. Monument commémoratif dans le village.

le 10

Erquinvillers (Oise) : tirailleurs sénégalais massacrés.

Cressonsacq (Oise) : soldats guinéens massacrés sur le territoire de la commune.

le 11

Cressonsacq : Massacre du bois d'Eraine, les soldats allemands de la 10e Panzerdivision, dont le Panzergrenadier-Division Großdeutschland, massacrent la totalité des Africains de la 4e division d'infanterie coloniale et du 24e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais faits prisonniers.

le 17

Clamecy (Nièvre) : 44 tirailleurs sénégalais et nord-africains sont fusillés ; l'un d'entre-eux parvient malgré tout à s'enfuir mais est rattrapé et tué à Oisy18.

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Sillé-le-Guillaume (Sarthe) : des soldats allemands assassinent quatorze prisonniers noirs appartenant au 208e régiment d’artillerie légère coloniale19.

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Chasselay (Rhône) : plusieurs dizaines de soldats sénégalais prisonniers (104 tués, 37 blessés, 856 disparus) sont exécutés par la division SS Totenkopf20.

Domptail (Vosges) : 28 à 33 soldats français sont fusillés par des soldats allemands21.

Lentilly (Rhône) : les SS de la division Totenkopf massacrent 18 tirailleurs sénégalais prisonniers.

Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or (Rhône) : Les SS de la division Totenkopf massacrent 12 tirailleurs sénégalais prisonniers.

Éveux (Rhône) : les SS de la 3. SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf massacrent 13 tirailleurs sénégalais prisonniers.

( source wikipédia)

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Communist songs for my fellow comrades <3 Stay strong guys.

this one's post punk :

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Equipage d'un panzer IV Ausf. H n° 1251 de la 24e Panzerdivision – Offensive Nikopol-Krivoi Rog (partie de l'offensive Dniepr-Carpates) – Nikopol – Union soviétique – Janvier-février 1944

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Pz III Ausf. N, 1/35 scale. Markings for assistant commander of 2nd battalion (I...

Pz III Ausf. N, 1/35 scale. Markings for assistant commander of 2nd battalion (II02), 7th Panzerdivision, Kursk 1943. . Figure sculptured myself (head from hornet). . #pz3 #germanyww2 #scalemodelsworld #germantank #plastickits #scalemodel #scalemodels #modelismo #plamo #scaletanks #hobby #weatheredmodels #modellbau #tanks #panzer #modelkitsinsta #modelkits_insta #ww2model #戦車模型…

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Ran out of milk

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Die Befreiung des Emslandlagers Oberlangen

Die Befreiung des Emslandlagers Oberlangen. Eine Ausstellung in der #Gedenkstätte_Esterwegen

Anlässlich des 79. Befreiungstages des Emslandlagers Oberlangen wurde vor zwei Wochen in der Gedenkstätte Esterwegen  die Ausstellung „Die 1. Polnische Panzerdivision und die Befreiung des Emslandes 1945“eröffnet. Die Ausstellung zeigt 130 Fotografien der polnischen Einheit, die 1942 in Schottland gegründet worden war und von August 1944 bis Mai 1945 an der Seite der Alliierten in Frankreich,…

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Sturmpanzer I Bison of the 5th Panzerdivision in Greece during the invasion, 1941

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Men of the Panzerbattalion Hermann von Salza of the ᛋᛋ-Panzerdivision “Nordland”

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1941 Greece, Panzer III Ausf E - Vincent Wai - box art Dragon 31 Panzer-Regiment, 5 Panzerdivision

1941 Grecia, Panzer III Ausf E - Vincent Wai - box art Dragon

 31 Panzer-Regiment, 5 Panzerdivision