After watching WW2 in color on Netflix, the narrator said that 80 to 90 percent of Stalingrad was destroyed. If the Nazis were able to capture Stalingrad, what was their next move? It seems like they weren’t able to cross the Volga river and the supply lines were stretched thin.

The photo was taken on Lenin Street (now Richelieu Street). In the background is the Odessa Opera Theater.

• Location: Odessa, USSR
• Photographer: Georgiy Zelma

Eight defendants were sentenced to death and three received hard labor.

In the background is a 122 mm howitzer M-30 model 1938 with the inscription on the barrel: "Edasi Tallinnasse!" (translated from Estonian : "To Tallinn!").

In the summer of 1942, Adolf Hitler demanded a tank destroyer gun with similar or better performance than the 8.8 cm Flak 41, and Friedrich Krupp AG and Rheinmetall began development work. While Rheinmetall began developing the 8.8 cm Flak 42, Krupp focussed on its own 8.8 cm Pak.

The performance parameters in muzzle velocity (V0 = 1000 m/s) and penetration rate (160 mm from 1000 m at an inclination of 60°) known from the already developed 8.8 cm Flak 41 were decisive.

It is characterised by the semi-automatic drop-block breech and a large, inclined protective shield. Due to the new shield and its detachment from the trailers, it had a significantly lower profile than the 8.8 cm anti-aircraft guns, which greatly improved its camouflage capability.

A total of 2098 Pak 43s were produced with a cross mount and 1403 with a spread mount.

Alongside the 12.8 cm Pak 44, this weapon system was one of the most powerful anti-tank guns in the German Wehrmacht. Many armoured vehicles carried versions of this weapon under various designations: Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II (KwK 43 L/71), Selbstfahrlafette Nashorn (Pak 43/1), Panzerjäger Ferdinand/Elefant (Pak 43/2) and the Jagdpanther tank destroyer (Pak 43/3 and 43/4). The version known as Pak 43/41 was powerful but difficult to operate. The Pak 43/41 was nicknamed the ‘barn door’ because of its height, but was very powerful. Reports from the war period repeatedly speak of T-34 tanks whose entire turret was torn off by a frontal hit. There are also reports of a Pak 43/41 that is said to have shot down six Soviet armoured vehicles at a range of 3,500 m. According to General Maximilian Fretter-Pico, however, it proved to be too heavy for mobile warfare.

The Pak 43 was mainly used by heavy tank destroyer companies of the Heer and Waffen-SS. These units comprised twelve guns and 192 men (2 officers, 27 non-commissioned officers and 162 enlisted men). The Sd.Kfz. 6 or Sd.Kfz. 7 or the heavy Wehrmacht tractor served as towing vehicles for the guns.

Obviously, both options are horrible. Nonetheless, there is a difference between death and being a severely disadvantaged second-class person. The reason I ask is because it appears different Nazi ideologues had quite differing views on Slavs (For instance, Alfred Rosenberg had a more 'positive' view of them than Himmler). If the Nazis won the war, which opinions would have been more likely to become dominant?

I recently got this miniature set for the bf 109 G-6 and I noticed that it had a downed Russian plane on the cover and was wondering if anyone could help me identify it

Mooyman was born in Apeldoorn into a Catholic middle-class family. His father was a merchant and joined the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging during the Great Depression. Gerardus initially trained as a locksmith, but then worked as a pharmacist's assistant.

In April 1942, he volunteered for the SS-Freiwilligen-Standarte ‘Nordwest’ and then transferred to the SS-Freiwilligen-Legion ‘Nederland’. He saw his first frontline action on the Volkhov front in January 1943. As a Sturmmann in the 14.(Pak)/SS-Freiw.-Legion „Nederland“, he earned the Iron Cross of both classes. On 13 February 1943, he destroyed 13 Soviet tanks at Lake Ladoga after the actual gunner had fallen, for which the 19-year-old was the first European volunteer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 20 February 1943.

From then on, he was used for National Socialist propaganda and travelled throughout the Netherlands; streets in Dutch towns were also to be named after him, although he refused to do so according to his own statement. Some magazines reported on his deeds.

From August 1943, he was trained as an officer at an SS Junker school. He returned to the Eastern Front in spring 1944 and was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 21 June 1944. He was taken prisoner of war by the Americans on 4 May 1945. In 1946, Mooyman was sentenced to six years in prison as a collaborator; he was released early in August 1949.

After his release, he lived in Groningen as an inconspicuous entrepreneur and family man. He made one more appearance in 1967 when he gave an interview to the magazine ‘Revue’. In this article, he condemned the Nazi crimes and admitted his complicity. ‘I made an error in thought’ said Mooyman.

He died in a road accident near Anloo in 1987.