Die Festung (Jaeger)

German withdrawal from the island in October 1944 Oberst Jaeger is next recorded as commanding Festungs-Bataillon 1017 in the Balkans in February 1945. It is

the 1985 film was based The Fortress (Die Festung), a 1962 semi-autobiographical prison novel by Henry Jaeger The Fortress (Tvrđava), a 1970 Yugoslav

recipients are listed in the 1986 edition of Walther-Peer Fellgiebel's book, Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — The Bearers of

there is, for example, the elderly grandmother who simply does not want to die and complains about the coffin that she has already chosen and which she

Hitler then made Rommel part of his defensive strategy for Fortress Europe (Festung Europa) by sending him to the West to inspect fortifications along the