“If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!” - Mad Jack Churchill.
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There’d better be a bio special on “Mad Jack.”
- Marches into battle with a claymore sword.
- Kills a German with a longbow.
- Plays bagpipes in a foxhole after running out of ammo and men.
- Escapes from POW camp (out of boredom?).
- Claimed any officer without a sword was essentially out of uniform.
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Looks to be a German self-propelled assault gun or tank destroyer. They liked to take the hulls from the Panzer line and put a casemate around the gun. SPAGs usually were lower to the hull, though the later model sat up high.
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That’s about half right. It’s not the Germans that did the assault gun conversion though. Have a look at the gun and the mantlet area. It’s pretty similar to a very common WW2 tank.
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Good lord!
Is that a T-34’s 76mm gun on a Panzer IV chassis? If so, why have I never heard of this unholy union?
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Panzer III not IV (halve the number of road wheels to get the mark) but yes, that’s a Soviet 76.2mm gun on the top. After Stalingrad the Soviets had several hundred captured Panzer IIIs. They were having problems with their own SU-76 self propelled gun so the decision was taken to convert captured enemy tanks into self propelled guns with the Soviet gun installed.
A number were subsequently recaptured by the Germans and since they were already operating captured 76.2mm guns and had large stocks of ammunition, they were pressed into service.
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Relatively easy: Which post-war internationally known politician was involved in the Holocaust during his service in the Wehrmacht? (albeit he did not participated in any killing)
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post-war as in he was alive post-war or he just became famous post-war?
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He was young during the war, he became famous post-war
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is it Wilhelm Pieck?
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Nope, Pieck was communist…
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Willy Brandt?
(I really have no idea.)
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Nope. Small hints:
He wasn’t SS, ergo he wasn’t foreign volunteer.
And he wasn’t socialist, communist, Left leaning in general…
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Was he German speaking, but not German?
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Another big hint: Then he was considered German, after WW2 he was not
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If you’d have said engineer then I’d have gone for Von Braun.
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Before becoming a politician, he studied Law
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World we be talking about a certain Wehrmacht officer active in Thessaloniki?!? 
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We have a winner!!!
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This one should be easy:
What WW2 veteran went on to not only be a famous actor, but sing about his famous ancestor crowned by the pope on Christmas Day?
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