Warszawa II (35 page)

Abteilung:
Battalion

AK: “Armia Krajowa”
The Polish Home Army

AT:
Anti-tank

BA-FAI:
A Soviet armoured car used by the Germans as a police armoured car.

BP 42:
Armoured train, model 1942

BP 44:
Armoured train, model 1944

Brummbär:
Assault tank IV, equipped with a heavy assault gun

Ersatz:
Replacement/training

Ersatz-StuG. Abt.:
Replacement assault battalion

Fallschirm-Panzer:
Parachute armour (Herman Göring)

Flak-Kaserne:
Anti-aircraft garrison

Flak-Vierling:
Four-barrelled anti-aircraft gun of calibre 20 mm

Funklenk (Fkl):
Radio controlled

Gammongranat:
British anti-tank grenade

Goliath:
Radio controlled mini tracked vehicle for the delivery of demolition charges

Heeresgruppe:
Armé Group (Army Group)

Hetzer:
Tank killer, a self-propelled AT-GUN mounted on a Czechslovakian T-38 tank, when in German service PzKpfw 38(t)

Jagdpanzer:
The standard description for all designed self-propelled AT-guns.

Kampfgruppe:
Battle-group

Karl Gerät:
Super heavy mortar of calibre 60 cm and was used for the destruction of the heaviest bunkers.

Kraftfahrpark:
Vehicle depot

MG 34:
Machinegun, model 34

MG 42:
Machinegun, model 42

Molotovcocktail:
Petrol bomb

Munitionsschleper:
Ammunition transport

Mörser:
Mortar, high calibre artillery gun similar technically to standard mortars firing shells in a high arc toward the target.

Nebelwerfer:
German rocket artillery

PAK:
anti-tank weapon

Pak 38:
Panzer Abwehr Kanone AT-GUN, 5 cm calibre

Pak 40:
AT-gun, 7.5 cm

Panzer-Abteilung:
Panzer Battalion

Panzer-Aufklärungs.Abt.:
Panzer reconnaisance battalion

Panzerbefehlswagen IV:
PzKpfw IV-vehicle with extra radio equipment for use as a battle command vehicle for a panzer battalion.

Panzer-Division:
Tank Division

Panzerfaust:
German AT gun

Panzergrenadier:
Tank grenadier

Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung:
Anti-tank battalion

Panzer-Kompanie:
Panzer Company

Panzer-Korps:
Tank Corps

Panzer-Nachrichten:
Tank communication/radio unit

Panzerschreck:
German bazooka

PIAT:
British RCL, a one-man, recoilless AT-gun

PzKpfw:
PanZerKamPFWagen = Tank

PzKpfw II:
A light tank, model 2, and reconnaissance vehicle

PzKpfw III:
A tank model 3 and medium tank

PzKpfw IV:
A tank model 4 and medium tank

PzKpfw V “Panther”:
A tank model 5 and medium-heavy tank

PzKpfw VI “Tiger”:
A tank model 6 and heavy tank

PzKpfw 38(t):
A reconnaissance tank of Czech origin also used by the Swedish Army

PzKpfw 736(i):
German codification for an Italian tank of model M13/40 and the M14/41

RONA:
Russian National Liberation Army

SA:
Sturm-Abteilung – Assault Battalion

Sd Kfz:
SonDerkraFtfahrZug = ID code for military vehicles in German service.

Sd Kfz 7/2:
Anti-aircraft- halftrack baring a 3.7 cm Flak 36 AA gun

Sd Kfz 10/4:
Anti-aircraft-halftrack baring a 20 mm Flak-Vierling 38 AA gun

Sd Kfz 132 “Marder”:
Self-propelled 7.62 cm AT-gun converted from the obsolete PzKpfw II – vehicle

Sd Kfz 232:
Armoured Radio Car

Sd Kfz 233:
Armoured car without turret, armed with a 7.5 cm short-barrelled gun

Sd Kfz 250:
Light half track for infantry transport

Sd Kfz 251:
Medium/heavy half-track for infantry transport

Sd Kfz 263:
Armoured radio car (6×4)

Sd Kfz 301, (B VI):
Borgward a so called “Sprengstoff-träger” vehicle built especially for the demolition of bunkers and obstacles.

SS-Obergruppenführer:
SS-General

SS-Standartenführer:
SS-Colonel

SS-Staufernkasern:
SS-Garrison

StuG Sturmgeschütz:
Assault gun

SS und Polizeiführer:
Chief of SS- and Police units within a specified occupied area

Sturm-Kompanie:
Assault Company

Sturmpanzer:
Heavily armed, assault gun of model Brummbär

Sturm-Pionier:
Assault sappers/pioneers

Sturmstiger:
One of the most heavily armed guns! A 38 cm rocket launcher also called “Sturmmörser” or assault mortar.

z.b.V zum besonderer Verwendung:
available – at command disposal

Bartelski L:
Mokotów 1944, Warszawa 1972.

Bartoszewski W:
Dni walczącej stolicy, Warszawa 1989.

Borkiewicz A:
Powstanie Warszawskie, Warszawa 1957.

Borkiewicz-Celińska A:
Batalion ,, Zośka”, Warszawa 1990.

Brun S:
,, Kris“, Reportaże z Powstania Warszawaziego, Warszawa 1990.

Davies N:
Slaget om Warsawa – Upproret 1944, Fahrenheit förlag 2003.

Encyklopedia Powstania Warszawskiego:
Warszawa 2001.

Fajer L:
Żołnierze Starówki, Warszawa 1957.

Gdański J.:
Brygada Kamińskiego, WPH 3/1994.

Grużewski J:
Kopf S., Kronika fotograficzna walczącej Warszawy, Warszawa 1957.

Jaugitz M:
Funklenkpanzer, Winnipeg 2001.

Jewsiewicki W:
Powstanie Warszawskie, Okiem polskiej kamery, Warszawa 1989.

Kirchmayer J:
Powstanie Warsawzkie, Warszawa 1958.

Von Krannhals H:
Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944, Frankfurt am Main, 1964.

Kuczmierowska H, Piekarski M:
Niemieckie specjalne srodki bojowe w Powstaniu Waeszawskim , WPH.

Kurowski F:
The History of the Fallschirm Panzerkorps Herman Göring, Winnipeg 1995.

Kwiatkowski J:
“Tu mowi powstancza Warszawa”, Warszawa 1994.

Malmassari P:
Les Traines Blindés 1826-1989, bmw 1989.

Nafzinger G:
The German army order of Battle. Armoured Units, London 2000.

Ozimek S:
Stare Miasto 1944, Warszawa 1971.

Pamiętniki żołnierzy batalionu,, Zośka”:
Warszawa 1957.

Płoski S:
Niemieckie materiały do historii powstania warszawskiego, Warszawa 1958.

Podleweski S:
Prezemarsz przez pieklo, Warszawa 1957.

Polskie Sily Zbrojne w drgiej wojnie swiatowej tom 3

armia Krajowa:
Londyn 1950.

Powstanie Warsawskie:
Wybör dokumentów, Warszawa 1997.

Przygonski A:
Powstanie warszawskie w sierpniu 1944 roku, Warszawa 1986.

Sawicki T:
Rozkaz: zdławić powstanie, Warszawa 2001.

Sawicki T:
Niemickie wojska lądowe na foncie wschodnim czerwiec 1944 maj 1945, Warszawa 1987.

Schneider W:
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Spielberger W:
Leichte Jagdpanzer, Stuttgart 1992.

Stachiewicz P:
,, Parasol“, Warszawa 1984.

Strassner P:
European Volunteers. 5 SS-Panzer-Division ,,Wiking”, Winnipeg, 1998.

Tessin G:
Verbäde und Truppen der deutsche Wehrmacht und Waffen SS in Zweiten Weltkrieg, Frankfurt am Main und Osnabrück 1965-1980.

Thorwald J:
Iluzja, Żołnierze radzieccy w armii Hitlera, Warszawa 1994.

Wyganowska-Eriksson A:
Pluton Pancery w Powstania

Warszawskim, Warszawa 1994.

Nowy kurier Warszawski z 7 wresnia 1944 roku.

National Archives:
The Alexandria files 78/411/12, 78/411/15

Military Archive:
Postdam WF-03/17383