Hello.
I once heard that the Reichswehr used ‘Paper-Panzers’ during maneuvres … but i thought they spent more money on those [now imagine a large maneuvre tank battle].
I think that model was used for AT training purposes - we also used wooden tank models [nice old russian BMPs and a T72] for PzFst3 training before going to the shooting cinema.
Best regards.
Alas, my dear Mr. Uyraell, I was unable to discover any photo connected with that previously mentioned prop-swinging theme. However, some pretty amazing photos taken in the early forties from behinds the WW 2 scenes were discovered during that tiny research. Here is one example, otherwise completely suitable for this thread:
Yes, Sir –I do know that the SC 50 surely is a less important contributory cause of the painful spine, but if you provide us with some supplementary Pferdebalsam, I am assuring you that my performance will be splendidly devoted again in almost no time!
In the meantime, as always all the best! 
Waffen SS in:“Dringendes Bedürfnis” !!!
Bored of awarding
Freaky smile
Sausage Party
They invented Hip Hop!!!
SS Child-Soldier
SS Soldier-Child
Winter Holiday
Thanks!
MfG
Biologie lesson:
The Reproduction of the PanzerI
thank you for the pictures User name expecially for the last one :D:D:D maybe if hitler knew of that reproduction he wouldn’t have problems with the small number of tanks :D:D
Aha ha ha
I /m scary to think how they have finaly got the Tigers and Panthers:)
Experiments with genes mutation or tribe selection?
BTW How is your doings in DDR?
Last time I checked it was considered to be BRD. 
Hahah DDR i think it is part of the past by 1990 already
No, my dear Mr. Ivaylo. Our distinguished Mr. User Name actually is anticipating our common European future. In fact, the EUSSR is taking shape right in front of our eyes, especially now, when our dearly beloved president of the EU has come into being.
Nevertheless, enough with this vacant thinking, and back to our main theme in this thread: color photo-rarities connected with the German Armed Forces.
My sincerest congratulations, Bruno! You do have magnificent driving skills, but we, somehow, use a great deal of your brilliance to keep ourselves stuck in the sand, and I’ll bet that your clutch adjustment now is out of whack… („Signal”, U/Nr. 8-41, PK Schultz)
In the meantime, honorable ladies and gentlemen, as always – all the best!
And why EUSSR ? EU is not based on communist or leninist ideas , there is no KPSS or something … We’re becoming more like USA rather than the old USSR i think .USSR was a closed type of sistem nothing in common with EU.
The reasoning for the buzzword EUSSR is simply that it is not democratic. Just like the USSR, the EU is governed by a political elite, not elected by the people but chosen by the powerful. I have not seen a public vote regarding the Presidency of the EU, or the state secretary, or the foreign affairs secretary, or any position, really.
Important positions are given away through trading and gambling at the top level of the politicians, not elections among all the European people.
Why?
Because if the EU was democratic, the large states - that is Germany, France, GB (in that order) could achieve a majority over the rest of the EU states.
This, of course, is something they don’t want, so they rather reduce the power of the big states and strengthen the weak ones - a motif that you find throughout the EU:
Good for the small states, bad for the big ones.
Germany is one of the biggest losers of the EU. It currently has a national debt of almost 1,650,000,000,000 Euro. And yet, Germany pays a rough average of 550,000,000 Euro to every EU state each year (It pays 26,000,000,000 Euro a year, with a return of roughly 12,000,000,000 Euro), practically financing many of the smaller Eastern European states without return.
Now, do you understand why Germans who actually deal with the matter and aren’t blinded by some ridiculous EU-philia strongly dislike it?
The big economic winners are Italy, Spain and Poland - they are/were able to quickly modernize their countries and keep them competitive in the Global and European market. In other words, the big states Germany, France and Britain finance the competition of their own industry.
Not to mention countries like Greece, which, without European financing, would have been broke 10 times over by now, and single-handedly pushes down the value of the Euro year for year.
So why, you might ask now, would German, French and British politicians always work towards the EU?
The answer is a simple one: Power.
This is something you always hear from EU-philes: “Can you imagine how powerful Europe could be, if it would only work together?” or “Europe could be the new super-power, if we were only united!”, or, as Tony Blair said: “As it is, Europe is turning into a Middle-Ages Disney land for the American and Chinese politicians. The EU has to be united if we want to continue to have a say in global politics”.
For the EU-philes, the Union is pretty much supposed to be the anti-dote against the loss of global power following the end of European Imperialism and the emergence of the US and USSR.
That is natural pure USSR:)
Russia also losed giant money and resourses, sponsored the other soviet republic ( especialy retarded like asiatic Uzbekistan)
Indeed excellent elaboration, my dear Mr. Schuultz. My sincerest congratulations. You have already elucidated almost everything, but I think that a couple of additional academic hints will be highly usable in this completely non-topic oriented question.
You see, my dear Mr. Ivaylo, we – alas! – are not becoming a variant of the USA (something like the USE - United States of Europe), and we (I mean the EUSSR) absolutely do share the majority of social aims as well as some typical forms of political structure with the late USSR. Particularly that highly rational political stance that elections alone are not capable to translate Public Opinion into Sustainable Policy.
Yes, we are openly admitting nowadays what some completely fruitless intellectuals have established in mid-thirties back there in Cambridge (Massachusetts) – the fact that our dearly beloved indirect democracy actually always works without consensus, but as if consensus prevailed.
One strictly academic explanation of that oddity was that consistent democratic values and habits are more prevalent among the politically active minority. Moreover, that valuation, finally, was accepted as a modern common denominator of our common European political reality. Of course, nobody has dared to openly admit that aforesaid stance actually was borrowed from a regretfully forgotten personality, an incredibly original but never properly credited intellectual named Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov, who additionally envisioned an even today ground-breaking theoretical standpoint, a pretty daring stance that the obliteration of inequality in Stratified Societies is only achievable through complete abolishment of the Indirect Democracy, and, accordingly, all political parties - including the Communist Party.
However, if you are truly interested for those basic, but nowadays completely outdated Institutions of Democratic Government, just ask those wonderful and attractive, intellectually superior and deeply enlightened society people in Brussels where, to hell, was the consent of the governed – the only legitimate basis of power in a classicistic, outdated, but officially still highly praised Democracy. You know - simply, fairly and squarely, in the old fashioned, ole rebellious Texan way. 
I am assuring you that I will eagerly wait for their answers as well. And I think that our distinguished Mr. Chevan will be positively energized too.
And now, back to our main subject in this thread:
The time has come, Ludwig. The time for advance is now. We have to go - our captain don’t cares how. We can go by bike; we can go on a horse-towed cart if we like. But after 40 kilometers we have to prepare for an evening meal a cow… Our captain really don’t cares how! („Signal”, U/Nr. 6 - 41, PK Jäger)
In the meantime, as always – all the best!
yes all this was interesting your position Shuultz and Librarian , but the people in Massachusetts would say that they also don’t live in democratic USA rather they live in Fourth Reich or USASSR . The simple fact for me is that in any society there are power man who decide everything without asking , or what you would say that Obama publicaly or through referendum ask the americans " My dear fellow americans , do you want to continue the war in Afganistan ? " answer " Hell yes bring it on , kill them all "
That’s only imagination far from the reality in fact everything is decided between the president and the senate ( which serve the power corporation and bank people not the one on the streets ) and war is continued even if it doesn’t have support in the society .
So where is the democration ? - simple answer there is not anywhere on the planed simple pure democracy where the nation rule , that’s imagination and only our dream .
Things about the finansation from Germany , UK and France i won’t dispute because i am not in these things a lot , and i was weak in mathematics
But maybe all this finansation of the weak have some idea behind it don’t you think - i mean a EU composed of strong 4 and weak else is going to crush in pieces in the future only a strong 4 and medium strong else might have a chance . The biggest problem is that most of these weak loose the money as the power men in their countries get them before they reach the population or the goal that they were sended for . ( as example my own poor country )
So don’t worry so much Poland won’t become USA because their leaders steal most of the money and they don’t build much .But understand something without a real help from EU for the poor nations they don’t stand a chance , maybe Germany , UK , France have to bring more control over the money and how and for what they are giving them , because i still didn’t get any of your money Shuultz :D:D:D
So that’s the democration USA was bringing to us after the fall of the wall , anyone who expect dreams to come true or he to rule his politician is completely wrong that won’t happen maybe in the future even . But that doesn’t mean that we got nothing - i am free now to talk in this forum without some commissar to come and arrest me , i can wear jeans , i don’t have to learn the marxist ideology and to make parades in honour of great Stalin , i don’t have to work for 2 leva ( 1 euro ) a day and my country is not in danger of soviet invasion like in Hungary .So there are good and bad things in the USA type of democration but if we invent something more good then ok bring it on , start revolution and change the sistem
I am very glad that we do share certain universal values, my dear Mr. Ivaylo, as well as the understanding that the end is not the end if we don’t wish it to be.
However, it seems to me that the only authentic problem we are facing in our time is the question how big and far should we think. One way or another, we shall need to have enough faith and interest in the permanence of the Human World and its peoples. But it will need a bigger sense of continuity and of deep-seated thinking than now exists. Otherwise our future surely will be pretty grim, although very conveniently prearranged, perhaps like in this vastly convincing artistic prediction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSj1yNZdY8&feature=related
However, we have to live our ordinary lives in some purposeful direction. Therefore – here we go:
Skimming and skimming with this creaky old shovel… Dreaming of a hot little hovel. But, alas, on my half-frozen legs now I can only grovel…
So maybe I need a better job then pushing this coursed old shovel… („Signal”, U/Nr. 7-43)
In the meantime, as always – all the best!
Perhaps you should restrain, or reserve, your comments for places you’ve actually visited or have a fucking clue about?
Meh, my brother used to live in Massachusetts and he in no way felt he lived in a ‘totalitarian state.’ I’m pretty sure he got to vote, was free to marry his girl, owned his own house (which he did very well with quite frankly profit wise when he sold it), and yes–he moved to New Hampshire (the “live free or die state” ). Mainly it was because he grew tired of the population density, the hustle and bustle, the horrific traffic, and wanted to live out in the country, but still have access to the cities of Boston, Portsmouth, and the various suburbs of his family and friends. Massachusetts is in fact a bastion of American culture boasting some of the oldest North American settlements (what we have of “old” culture that is) and is a great place to live and work, and raise a family if you make some serious money there. It is expensive, but so much to do with culture, sports, commerce, and as I stated–culture. Ninety percent of the people who degrade MA in the US are retarded rednecks who’ve never visited or lived there, and base all of their ignorant comments on the partisan political infighting as the citizens of Mass tends to elect Democrats and of course Boston was the heart of the Kennedy political dynasty. But that has almost nothing to do with the overall quality of life, the blend of rustic scenery with a very cosmopolitan world class city. If Massachusetts were such a “socialist” mecca, then one would be hard pressed to explain how the “internet” billionaires retired there (on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard) during the the “Dot-com” bubble. And unfortunately, they seem to be doing fine there despite the best efforts of those Massachusetts Bolshevik jackals to share their wealth involuntarily as they’ve largely put Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard out of reach for the middle class as a summer excursion, which is really too bad. Some of my fondest memories are of my parents renting cottages along the shore on the beach during the 1970s. 
Ned Beatty is the anti-Christ, (who’da thunk it, )
Hell my mistake i am sorry deeply , no offense , i taken it from the post of Librarian with the thinking that maybe there are people in US as whole not only there that are not happy with the sistem .
"Yes, we are openly admitting nowadays what some completely fruitless intellectuals have established in mid-thirties back there in Cambridge (Massachusetts) – the fact that our dearly beloved indirect democracy actually always works without consensus, but as if consensus prevailed. "
Librarian thanks a lot for the understanding and the common view
Once more nothing against any people in US or Massachusetts in any way , accept please my apologies
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time has come, Ludwig. The time for advance is now. We have to go - our captain don’t cares how. We can go by bike; we can go on a horse-towed car
Horses, horses, horses everywhere, cant help to think that pr
obably the german army needed more trucks instead so many panzer developments.
After a busy day, finally some unruffled moments for our enjoyable conversation, honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Librarian thanks a lot for the understanding and the common view.
Oh, not at all, my dear Mr. Ivaylo. The pleasure was mine! And please forgive me for my obviously careless use of those unfocused expressions. You know, those nowadays sadly forgotten celebrities of the Ivy League, like professor V. O. Key, who actually presented those highly intriguing results of his scientific investigations in a sorrowfully neglected book “Public opinion and American Democracy” (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.) are somehow circumvented by the new rules of the modern schooling game, called Carve Your Own Niche, or The Best Fit Is What Matters.
Besides, I am assuring you that all those traditionally very well informed, shrewd, determined inhabitants of those six small, hilly, incredibly lovely states in the northeast corner of the United States which compose the New England region, are well aware that your personal stances are representing only a highly abridged amount of otherwise fruitful and inspiring intellectual resourcefulness, already offered by the Washington Post Company (with a nickname “Pravda on the Potomac”!) – a completely domestic, New England born and bred leader in the pursuit of truth:
http://www.keynesatharvard.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/newsweek-socialists_now.jpg
Therefore – don’t worry. As long as there are intellectually capable women and man who seek to create a free intellectual space in which to make their own lives and a common space in which to forge a communal destiny with others, the struggle for Democracy will persist. However, this thread is a little bit inappropriate place for those assessments. That’s all.
Horses, horses, horses everywhere…
You are absolutely right, my dear Mr. Panzerknacker: German Army was inundated with horses, but I think that the main problem was constant inability of the Wehrmacht to overcome that almost intrinsic and basically politically propagated tendency to achieve the rearmament in width, rather then in depth. I’m sure that you will remember those already explained problems with the Opel Blitz lorry production. In addition, I can say that the new production programmes constantly succeeded one another with bewildering speed. Final result was a complete absence of any reasonable standardization.
Actually, Panzers represented the proper key to the German success, but it appears that the victory of the armoured idea within the Army was much less complete than was once thought - a more traditional approach, emphasizing maneuver, but retaining the key role of the infantry constantly persisted alongside the new ideas. The German Army of 1940, for example, was mainly modeled on that of 1914. Even the campaign in France in 1940, which was a great triumph of armored and aerial warfare doctrine, was affected by this conflict of views.
However, enough with the empty theorizing. Here is another color rarity, scanned specially for you:
You can chain him or starve him, Franzl, even drive a whip right into his sides. But you’ll never get inside him, where the angel spirit resides! („Signal”, U/Nr. 7/41)
I hope you’ll like it here. In the meantime, as always - all the best!