"20mm Volkssturm for Battlegroup Fall of the Reich" Topic
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| PiersBrand | 24 Sep 2018 5:36 a.m. PST |
Ernst Tiburzy – "As an ideal example for all brave soldiers, from the thirteen year old Jungvolk volunteers to the old men, was the Königsberger Volkssturm-Bataillonsführer und SA-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Tiburzy. The 34 years old, already seriously wounded East Prussian Tiburzy received the Knight's Cross on February 10, 1945. Tiburzy was the Bataillonsführer of Volkssturm-Bataillon 25/82 in Festung Königsberg. When the Russians made an armoured assault, Tiburzy knocked out a T-34 with a Panzerfaust. When one of his platoon commanders cowardly tried to escape, Tiburzy shot the man, grabbed some new Panzerfäuste and knocked out a further four T-34's. He then personally led his Batallion in a counter-attack on the Russian positions and held his part of the front sector.In the Wehrmachtsbericht of February 28, 1945, it said that; "the awarding of the Knight's Cross to SA-Hauptsturmführer Tiburzy, commander of a Königsberg Volkssturm Batallion, for the destruction of five Russian tanks".
…and the likely outcome for most of them…
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| PiersBrand | 24 Sep 2018 5:36 a.m. PST |
Ernst Tiburzy – "As an ideal example for all brave soldiers, from the thirteen year old Jungvolk volunteers to the old men, was the Königsberger Volkssturm-Bataillonsführer und SA-Hauptsturmführer Ernst Tiburzy. The 34 years old, already seriously wounded East Prussian Tiburzy received the Knight's Cross on February 10, 1945. Tiburzy was the Bataillonsführer of Volkssturm-Bataillon 25/82 in Festung Königsberg. When the Russians made an armoured assault, Tiburzy knocked out a T-34 with a Panzerfaust. When one of his platoon commanders cowardly tried to escape, Tiburzy shot the man, grabbed some new Panzerfäuste and knocked out a further four T-34's. He then personally led his Batallion in a counter-attack on the Russian positions and held his part of the front sector.In the Wehrmachtsbericht of February 28, 1945, it said that; "the awarding of the Knight's Cross to SA-Hauptsturmführer Tiburzy, commander of a Königsberg Volkssturm Batallion, for the destruction of five Russian tanks".
…and the likely outcome for most of them…
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| Fred Cartwright | 24 Sep 2018 5:50 a.m. PST |
So good you posted it twice! :-) Lovely figures. Have been eyeing up the Offensive Miniatures HJ and Volkssturm. After seeing these I am definitely weakening. |
79thPA  | 24 Sep 2018 5:59 a.m. PST |
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| pzivh43 | 24 Sep 2018 7:22 a.m. PST |
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| wrgmr1 | 24 Sep 2018 8:52 a.m. PST |
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| TacticalPainter01 | 24 Sep 2018 9:38 a.m. PST |
Great work, I love the POWs, they look suitably disgruntled. |
| nnascati | 24 Sep 2018 10:58 a.m. PST |
Very nice work. The armbands are decals, right? |
| PiersBrand | 24 Sep 2018 11:07 a.m. PST |
No decals… brush painted. |
| shirleys painting | 24 Sep 2018 4:10 p.m. PST |
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| custosarmorum | 24 Sep 2018 4:51 p.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 24 Sep 2018 6:19 p.m. PST |
Piers, you forgot the wheelbarrow to cart his brass balls around!  |
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