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The "Panzerlied" ('Tank Song') is a Wehrmacht march of the Nazi era, sung primarily by the Panzerwaffe—the tank force of Nazi Germany during World War II. It is one of the best-known songs of the Wehrmacht and was popularised by the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge . [ 1 ]
"Erika" is both a common German female name and the German word for heather.The lyrics and melody of the song were written by Herms Niel, a German composer of marches.The exact year of the song's origin is not known; often the date is given as "about 1930", [3] but this has never been substantiated.
Panzerlied ("Tank song") was a German military march of the Wehrmacht armored troops (Panzerwaffe), composed in 1933. [16] The NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps) also made their own take on the Panzerlied, but with a different variation called the Panzerwagenlied ("Armored car song").
The characters of Kiley, an American lieutenant colonel, and Hessler, a regular Wehrmacht tank commander, were loosely based on Colonel Benjamin Abbott "Monk" Dickson and Waffen-SS lieutenant colonel Joachim Peiper, although the character of Hessler actually asks General Kohler about the reports of the massacre at Malmedy, which Kohler blames ...
Girls und Panzer is a 2012 Japanese anime television series created by Actas, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama.It depicts a competition between girls' high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport called "sensha-dō" (戦車道, lit. "the way of the tank"), the art of operating tanks.
The men of the Panzerwaffe, are referred to as Panzertruppen (Armoured Troops), were distinguishable by their close fitting black uniforms, known as Panzer wraps.The corps colour of the German Panzertruppe was pink.
The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
This is a list of characters in the fiction of Robert A. Heinlein. A. Allucquere (a.k.a. "Mary") – The Puppet Masters; Security Chief Juan Alvarez – The ...