[DB] Footage Archive

There are also some very interesting albeit less known details about the bombing of Hamburg: RAF Bomber Command used large quantities of incendiaries against Hamburg because the objective was not merely to hit individual factories. British area-bombing policy was supposed to…

Letter from a Swiss volunteer in the Waffen-SS to home: I am, after all, not the only Swiss man who has voluntarily left his homeland to fight for a new and greater future for our people; we Swiss volunteers, however, still stand alone in our belief as a minority of men. No…

Joachim von Kortzfleisch, distant cousin of von Stauffenberg. He was present in Berlin during the 20th July plot. He angrily refused to obey Operation Valkyrie orders issued by one of the leading conspirators General Friedrich Olbricht and kept shouting ‘the Führer is not dead’…

Dr. Albert Bausch, PhD in law. On 14 December 1943, German forces launched a corps-sized counterattack to close a dangerous gap near Novgorodka. The Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 286 under the command of Dr. Bausch was supposed to provide support for the Fallschirmjäger. Dr. Bausch…

Ernst Gadermann (Right), PhD in medicine, specializing in Cardiology. Dr. Ernst Gadermann was perhaps the most unusual kind of Luftwaffe Knight's Cross recipient: a physician who became a frontline Stuka crewman. Originally serving as a medical officer, Gadermann eventually…

There are also some very interesting albeit less known details about the bombing of Hamburg: RAF Bomber Command used large quantities of incendiaries against Hamburg because the objective was not merely to hit individual factories. British area-bombing policy was supposed to…