Sunday, October 23, 2016

"Just wear it" versus reenactment realities

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     In a previous post  on this blog we discussed artificial "aging" of reproduction items used for reenactment as a way to make ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Tactical employment of Wehrmacht security units

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Excerpts from "The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941-1944" by Edgar M. Howell, Department of the Army, 1956.
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Razors used by German soldiers in WWII, and current production equivalents

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     What kind of razors were German soldiers issued in WWII? It's a trick question. Soldiers had to supply their own razors. They could...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Field expedient stove for Zeltbahn tent

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Article by Willi Graf. Staying warm in cold weather, especially during winter nights, is a problem as old as mankind. For winter ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

WWII German Wehrmacht unit designations and abbreviations- a basic primer for reenactment

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     WWII German unit designations can be hard for reenactors and reenactment units to fully understand. They are very different from the A...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

The things one may have carried

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Author: Markhard Brünner I will begin this article by stating that I do not claim to be an expert or authority on German personal item...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Public "battles" in living history

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Sicherungs-Regiment 195 focuses mostly on immersion events, where we try to recreate the daily mundane life of WWII German security tro...