Showing posts with label Thomale - Wolfgang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomale - Wolfgang. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Korpskommandeur Sepp Dietrich in Normandy


From left to right: Generalmajor Wolfgang Thomale (Chef des Stabes Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen), Generalmajor Edgar Feuchtinger (Kommandeur 21. Panzer-Division), Hauptmann Dr.-Ing. Alfred Becker (Kommandeur Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 200 / 21.Panzer-Division), and SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (Kommandierender General I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte"). This picture was taken from the weekly news 'Die Deutsche Wochenschau' Nr. 722 which published on 5 July 1944.


SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (center, Kommandierender General I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte") and his adjutant SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Weiser at right. This picture was taken from the weekly news 'Die Deutsche Wochenschau' Nr. 722 which published on 5 July 1944.



An excerpt from 'Die Deutsche Wochenschau' Nr. 722, 5 July 1944, showing footage of the fight in Normandy, including destroyed allied armor, the Battle of Villers-Bocage, captured American soldiers, and footage from Waffen-SS troops, including Waffen-SS General Sepp Dietrich (shown on 02:49).


Source :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHL8cxpPj1w

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Walter Model and Hasso von Manteuffel


From left to right: General der Panzertruppe Hasso von Manteuffel (Oberbefehlshaber 5. Panzerarmee), Generalmajor Wolfgang Thomale (Chef des Generalstabes Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen), and Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model (Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe B). This photo was taken in December 1944 in the Eifel, a mountainous region located in western Germany and eastern Belgium, during "Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein" a.k.a. the Ardennes Offensive a.k.a. the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945).

Source :
https://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2010/10/album-foto-general-der-panzertruppe.html