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A select group of Fallschirmjäger were chosen, composed of four trucks full of German paratroopers from the III Battalion of Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment 1 commanded by Oberleutnant Horst Trebes. On 2 June 1941, the paratroopers arrived at the village of Kondomari and rounded up the male villagers and chose their victims.
Jägerbataillon 25 Airborne: "Mutig Tapfer Treu" (German for "Brave Bravely Faithful") Jägerbataillon 23: In Treue fest (German for ''Steadfast in loyalty'') Jägerbataillon 18: Das Oberland- Fest in uns'rer Hand! (German for ''The Highlands- Firmly in our hand'') Pionierbataillon 3: Pioniere - wie immer (German for "Pioneers - like always")
The Paratrooper Battalion 263 (Fallschirmjägerbataillon 263) was one of the three combat battalions of the German Army's Airborne Brigade 26, which is a part of the Special Operations Division. Paratrooper Battalion 263 was fully airmobile and could act both as air assault infantry or could be dropped by parachute into the area of operations.
The reformer Martin Luther wrote the hymn in twelve stanzas of four lines each as a catechetical setting of the Ten Commandments. The commandments were used for confession and for instructions. [1] After an introduction, stanzas 2 to 10 are related to the ten commandments; 11 and 12 provide a conclusion, related to Jesus. [2]
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
The paratroopers' arm-of-service color was orange, which was displayed on their collar and shoulder boards. [13] 40. Fallschirmjägerbataillon paratroopers used orange berets in parades and other public events, but they used gray berets when in the field. [14] The selection of orange berets was symbolic, to commemorate the German Peasants' War ...
Fallschirmjäger – paratroopers; German airborne troops. FdM – Führer der Minensuchboote; FdU – Führer der Unterseeboote; Commander-in-Chief of U-boats (used from World War I to 1939, when the title was reduced to "Regional Commander"). FdV – Führer der Vorpostenboote; Feigling – coward. Feind – enemy. "Feindlich-" is used as an ...
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