Veteran Tank ace Otto Carius now 90 years old with a total of 150+ kills is shown here with his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Carius stared out in a panzer 38(t) as a gunner and latter transferred to a Tiger I as a commander and ended in a Jagdtiger. He survived the war and started a pharmacy called Tiger Apotheke where he still works to this day.

Old Tank Veteran 

Another photo of our recently discovered, deceased wartime British Agent most foul...

Dead Pigeons Tell No Tales 2

November 25, 1942—December 20, 1942
This was a Soviet offensive operation that took place during the Battle of Stalingrad and is still largely undocumented. The Red Army sought to encircle a German salient west of Moscow, near Rzhev, and relieve pressure on Stalingrad. Later, propaganda would claim this was nothing but a diversionary attack, but the number and proportion of troops deployed and the ferocity of attack suggests otherwise.

The operation achieved little, but cost over 300,000 Russian and 40,000 German casualties. The series of battles that this was a part of, The Battles of Rzhev, is equally unknown, yet accounted for at least one million total casualties. This area gained the nickname “The Rzhev meat grinder”, for the terrible fighting and losses taken in the area. And to top off this hell on earth, the city of Rzhev had a concentration camp in it’s town square.

