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Heydrich · 12-11-2003, 05:17 PM

Tac, you must have been having a bad day or something, but wasn’t the Heer (OKH) technically the designation for the German Army in WW2 and the Wehrmacht (OKW) the combined German military? I noticed that after the 1997 publication of Pimlott’s book, Wehrmacht "The Illustrated History of the German Army" there has been a little more ambiguity here. That dude should have known better.

I got out my copy of Charles Sydnor’s book Soldiers of Destruction after reading this thread. According to him, that division went by SSTV, then SSTK later on. But RK is right, looks like generally speaking the TK acronym is used. The real question is if members of that unit back then used it.

Interesting book by Sydnor. He includes some photos of notable TK members back then. God some of them are scary looking dudes. He has a long-winded conclusion in it that emphatically states that the 3rd SS Panzer (and derivatives) was involved in immoral activities, and at least indirectly with the shady dealings of the concentration camp system. I needed to read this book to figure that out?

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12-11-2003, 05:17 PM	#10
Heydrich Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 181 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Tac, you must have been having a bad day or something, but wasn’t the Heer (OKH) technically the designation for the German Army in WW2 and the Wehrmacht (OKW) the combined German military? I noticed that after the 1997 publication of Pimlott’s book, Wehrmacht "The Illustrated History of the German Army" there has been a little more ambiguity here. That dude should have known better. I got out my copy of Charles Sydnor’s book Soldiers of Destruction after reading this thread. According to him, that division went by SSTV, then SSTK later on. But RK is right, looks like generally speaking the TK acronym is used. The real question is if members of that unit back then used it. Interesting book by Sydnor. He includes some photos of notable TK members back then. God some of them are scary looking dudes. He has a long-winded conclusion in it that emphatically states that the 3rd SS Panzer (and derivatives) was involved in immoral activities, and at least indirectly with the shady dealings of the concentration camp system. I needed to read this book to figure that out?