Soldier stories from all over the world

Soldiers' Stories from All Over the World was a German magazine series in medium format . She appeared from late 1957 to 1964 in 202 volumes in Munich Moewig - Verlag . The title was changed from volume 131 in 1961 to soldiers and aviators from all over the world , as the series of aviator stories , which had been published since 1953, was discontinued and integrated into the new series. Like Der Landser , the soldiers' stories were indirectly a continuation of older German booklet romance series such as Under German Flag or the War Library of German Youth . From 1959 to 1961, the subsidiary series Soldiers' Stories Special Volumes was published in 47 issues .

Subjects, authors, illustrations

In contrast to the Landser published by Pabel-Verlag in Rastatt , which only deals with topics from the Second World War , the spectrum of soldiers' stories also included depictions of conflicts from the mid-19th century:

American Civil War (Civil War )
Franco-German War
First World War
Spanish Civil War
Korean War ( The Deadly Hills - US Infantry in Korea , Vol. 35),
Israeli War of Independence ( Palestine War ) (Rolf O. Becker: The sword of the desert. From the fight of Israel against the Arabs , vol. 37),
Algerian War (René Darlan: Bitter Victory. German Foreign Legionnaires losing out in North Africa , vol. 118, 1960).
Indochina War (Ralph de LaForest: Post D 49 does not answer. The "dirty war" in the jungles of Indochina , vol. 107, 1960).
Cuban Revolution (Rolf O. Becker: Eviva Cuba, eviva Fidel Castro , Vol. 61, 1959).

Some editions may have been translations of apparently American authors. So far nothing is known about the German authors; as the most important author signed Rolf O. Becker; possibly a collective or publishing pseudonym . The colored cover illustrations were all by Johnny Bruck , who from 1961 designed the Perry Rhodan series in parallel .

expenditure

Bernd Norwig: Tanks for Crete. The hussar piece of German pioneers and tanks

Wilhelm Wolfslast : Fight at the Ugra. German soldiers lost in the Russian winter

Herbert Eschbach: Tobruk - km 31 The German Afrika Korps in the battle for Tobruk

Ferdinand Ludwig: Bridge in the Fog. The great tank battle in France

Axel Eggen: tanks on the enemy. A daring venture on the Eastern Front

Rolf O. Becker: Rommel's Foreign Legionnaires. A troop that only a few knew about

Armin Relling: Battle for Apennine Height 711

Ferdinand Ludwig: breakthrough into freedom

Günther Lampert: Far from Sedan ... The knightly battle of German infantrymen

Rolf O. Becker: Day Dora, Hour H. Beginning of the invasion - seen from the other side

Armin Relling: Eleven men stop an offensive

Günther Lampert: The Fieseler-Storch-Stuka. The report of a rare comradeship in arms

Herbert Eschbach: The heroes of the Halfayapass. The biggest tank battle in the Balkans

Günther Lampert: The million dollar bunker. A coup d'état by German pioneers in Russia

Armin Relling: Street Fight in Korea. A handful of American infantrymen are fighting for their lives

Axel Eggen: Sled patrol Greenland. German soldiers fight in the ice deserts of the Arctic

Herbert Eschbach: Adventure in the Cyrenaica. Dangerous scout troop in the Libyan desert

Wilhelm Wolfslast: Guderian's decisive tank breakthrough. German tanks against the Maginot Line

Ferdinand Ludwig: Company home. The story of an adventurous escape

Helmuth Karschkes: Journey into the unknown. German armored reconnaissance troop in the Terek steppe

Rolf O. Becker: The leap into the void. German paratroopers in Norway

Lothar Lerg: Night in no man's land. Shock troop in tough defensive battles in Hungary

Stefan Leuchtenberg: The March to Height 307

Volker Nerbuch: The hell of Dien Bien Phu . Foreign legionaries fight in the jungle fortress of Indochina

Roland Wald: Bunker crackers Brex. Landser in the Russian cold winter of 1941/42

Helmuth Karschkes: Shock troop in the Bukowina. The journey of a German soldier from Latvia to Romania

Lothar Lerg: Good by, Jerry! German and American soldiers between the fronts of the Battle of the Bulge, 1944

Ferdinand Ludwig: Flares on Mont Cenis. A dangerous special order in Italy

Wilhelm Wolfslast: Storm on the Elbrus. German mountain troops on the highest peak of the Caucasus

Volker Nerbuch: Hell in the Pacific. The US 2nd Marine Infantry Division storms Betlo Island in the Tarawa Atoll

FL John: Company "Neptune". Mountain troops attacking Novorossisk's landing head

John. Schulz: The devil broke loose in Gambut. From the deployment of a German special command in Africa

Günther Lampert: Russian tanks in front of Sala. In Karelia: German anti- tank rifles against T 34

Peter Paus: Comrade 8.8. Heavy anti-aircraft troop in the Kalmyk steppe

Axel Eggen: The deadly hills. US infantry in Korea

Will Torla: Please report the Adlerhorst scouting party. Armored reconnaissance party against Russian cavalry

Rolf O. Becker: The sword of the desert. About the struggle of Israel against the Arabs

Joh. Schulz: Final round Tunis

Volker Nerbuch: Spain in flames. The German "Condor" Legion in the Spanish Civil War

Gustav Kuhs: advance to the Düna. Summer 1941 - the "Dom Division" attacked on the northern front

John. Schulz: Hey Safari! Lettow-Vorbeck's protection force is fighting in East Africa

Fred Nemis: Frogmen attack. German-Italian special command against Allied landing fleets in the port of Palermo

Leopold Kahlinger: Battery fire! The 373rd Infantry Division against Tito's troops in Bosnia

Gerd Kessler: Hagedorn cavalry patrol. German cavalry in the Polish campaign

Hans Walter: Feldkornett Gieters rides for the Transvaal . From the Boer War in South Africa

Andrés Elfeld: Tundra hunter. Ski hunters in the no man's land of the polar expanses

Joh. Schulz: Company "Zola"

JP Semper: Encircled. The Uman Kettle Battle, August 1941

Erich Elsnegg: The Foullé Company. French soldiers in the bloody fight against the insurgents in Algeria

Wolfgang Zietz: King tigers attack. The heaviest German tanks in Lorraine, autumn 1944

Martin Wittig: tanks, anti-tank guns and grenadiers. From the Russian campaign in the autumn of 1941 with Army Group South

Armin Relling: Jump into the jungle. Attack by American paratroopers against a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific

Günther Lampert: Paymaster Schneider takes over the command! Resupply troops seal off Russian breakthrough

Ferdinand Ludwig: Attack at sunset. The death ride of Vionville and Mars-la-Tour 1870/71

Joh. Schulz: Barrage at the long stop. The last bolt of the German Africa Corps in Tunisia falls

Hans Reburg: The conquest of Liège . German soldiers take the strongest fortress in the First World War a

FO Lobethal: The outbreak. The "Bear Division" from Ukraine to Stalingrad

Ferdinand Ludwig: Today Brussels falls. The resolve of a German officer decides an entire tank battle

Hans Reburg: The bridges of Nijmegen. The decisive act of German frogmen

Rolf O. Becker: Eviva Cuba - Eviva Fidel Castro. Rebels fight for Cuba's freedom

Martin Esser: The last of the company. German infantrymen blow up the containment ring south of Newel

Rolf O. Becker: "Salve - fire!" The American Civil War - Northern States versus Southern States

Joh. Schulz: Duel in the night. British tank raid on an African airfield

Volker Nerbuch: Parole Lemberg. The assault of the 1st Mountain Division in the Polish campaign in 1939

Ferdinand Ludwig: Blow up all bridges! French pioneers experience the western campaign in May 1940

Willie Hallock: Lost in Burma. British-Indian troops in the jungle fight against Japanese push columns

Ferdinand Ludwig: The field marshal with the golden badge for wounded. Walter Model near Rshew and in the Ardennes

Arno Beckmann: Japanese storm Tsingtau . 3,000 Germans against 60,000 Japanese in the battle for Kiautschou in 1914

Karl P. Hehl: Three comrades

Reinhold Greelen: Prepare to counterattack. In the hell of the Caen material battle

Volker Nerbuch: Fight for the Alcazar. 1000 men defend a fortress against a twelve-fold superiority in the Spanish civil war

Armin Relling: Until five past twelve. A German sergeant between personal responsibility and obedience

FO Lobethal: Ammunition forward! A brave act brings the ultimate salvation

HJ Korten: Baghdad special company. Action by German defense in Iraq

Otto Zierl: Gas alarm on the Isonzo. German and Austrian troops overrun the Italian Alpine front in 1917

Werner Haupt : Panzerjäger near Polotsk. Russian mass attack breaches German security position on the Daugava

Axel Eggen: The "leather necks". US Marines , the United States' elite force, storm a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific

Ernst Graf: Desert rats. In the fight for Tobruk

Ferdinand Ludwig: The polar wolves. German soldiers lost in the ice desert of Greenland

Gustav Kuhs: Sergeant Lohse and his men. French tank attack into the flank of storming infantry

Joh. Schulz: This is how Bir Hachem fell. The struggle for the British fortress in the Gazala Line Africa Campaign 1942

Martin Wittig: 8 days included. Partisan fighting under Tito in the Balkans, spring 1945

FO Lobetahl: Sender "Vulkan" no longer answers. In the jungle of espionage

Joh. Schulz: Attack! Sink! German micro-submarines go against the Allied supply fleet

Will Torla: Tank scout troop clears up. German advance detachment in the fighting southwest of Bryansk / summer 1941

Willie Hallock: Alert! They are coming! American storm troops land on the Normandy coast

Ferdinand Ludwig: Escape from Sevastopol. Dramatic battle between Russian and German wounded for control on a Black Sea ferry

Rolf O. Becker: You flew against death. The self-sacrificing missions of the German distress pilots

Unknown author: In secret order. Men of the "Brandenburg" ghost division between the fronts

FL John: March of the Giants. Breakthrough through the canal - a hussar piece of naval warfare

Will Torla: In Gory Hell. The advance department located north of the Luga reports "Mission accomplished - bridge blown!"

BR Lion: Merciless Heaven. Air battle over Normandy - Fighter Squadron 4 in the hopeless fight against allied superiority

Johann Krompass: To the left of Cassino . A handful of German mountain hunters in an exposed mission in the fight for the "Holy Mountain"

Rolf O. Becker: The Przemysl Bridge. A bridge opens the way for an entire army

Manfred Michler: March papers home. Young French woman and German first lieutenant save 15 children from the turmoil of war in an adventurous way

Will Torla: coup d'état on Oslo. At the head of German naval forces, the heavy cruiser "Blücher" sinks in combat with Norwegian coastal batteries

Peter Paus: "Sani, I'm wounded!" The self-sacrificing act of Corporal Dietmann

Ferdinand Ludwig: The black day of Avranches. General Patton breaks through the German Normandy Front with the 3rd US Army

Werner Haupt: The blue division. The Spanish volunteer division fights trapped German base at Ilmensee free

Hans Torsten: A platoon of tank grenadiers. On the invasion front near Tilly against the British and Canadians

Martin Esser: The village on the runway. Between the fronts, Private Kassack struggled back to the company with 11 stragglers

Johann W. Krompass: Probation at the front! Convicted by the court martial - ordered to the front - killed while retreating

Will Torla: Advance on Bear. A small fighting group, completely on its own, makes its way into the rear of the Albania front

Rolf O. Becker: First aid station held. No Wehrmacht report reported of the self-sacrificing help of the doctors and paramedics

Hein Palmer: Manhunt in Arizona. The adventurous escape of German cars through the Gila desert

Hans Torsten: fighters against bombers

Ralph de Laforest: Post D49 does not answer. The "dirty war" in the jungles of Indochina

LOBETHAL, FO The "Ninth" and her lieutenant. Five weeks of defensive battle between the Azov and Black Seas

Ferdinand Ludwig: Up to the gates of Egypt. The reconquest of Cyrenaica through the surprise advance of the German Africa Corps

FL John: Penalty Battalion Forward!

Hans Bertram: Jump on Crete. The German paratroopers jump in the middle of the English positions - May 1941

FO Lobethal: Tank from the left! They were the first and last at the enemy - a German advance detachment on the advance and return march in the Ukraine

Peter Paus: Budapest is broadcasting SOS. The crew of Budapest is included - and yet German boats are bringing help on the Danube waterway

Werner Haupt: The Russians are attacking. The gripping report from the fire hell of the 2nd Ladoga battle

Rolf O. Becker: The devil's own weapon. The mysterious mines on Tsushima Street

René Darlan: Bitter victory. German Foreign Legionnaires lost in North Africa

FO Lobethal: Base on the Don. Overrun by Soviet divisions, a scattered group of soldiers fought their way to their own lines

Werner Kortwich: Hit by six torpedoes ... The giant Japanese aircraft carrier "Shimano" sunk by an American submarine in 15 minutes

Gerd Kessler: The lost company. Death lurks in the dark of night, in lonely forests: partisans are attacking!

Rolf O. Becker: Weser exercise north

Ralph Brumme: 90 days of fear in the neck. The adventurous escape of a German long-range reconnaissance crew

Volker Reburg: The war held its breath ... Allied landing on Sicily! A German and an American meet as opponents and become friends

René Darlan: Forward, legionnaires! The Dremden Legion was the last stop of a German prisoner of Russia on the way home

Hans Torsten: The tank battle of St. Lô. The end of the armored training division in Normandy

Joh. Schulz: Fight for Guadalcanal . The decisive battle of the American and Japanese fleets in the Pacific

Hans Bertram: The "Green Devils" on the Neva. Paratroopers in trench warfare on the northern front

Will Torla: Assault the Metaxas Line . A corner pillar of the Greek fortress front is stormed

Peter Paus: The Scampton Aviation Secret. The English air raid against the Möhne and Edertalsperre

Fritz Kessler: The ice nights of Karelia. Guerrilla warfare in the forest wilderness on the shores of Lake Ladoga

JP Semper: Storming Mont Blanc. The last battle of the French and German mountaineers on the ice fields of Mont Blanc

Gerhard H. Rudolf: The captured Ju 52 . A coup d'état by French resistance fighters on a German courier plane

James Gant: Sergeant Max Dessler. American soldiers - captured in the Japanese jungle camps of Burma - translation

Helmut Lorenz: German mine boat UC 14 in the Thames estuary. The first patrol by a German submarine commander off the east coast of England

H. von Derp: At a losing position in Abyssinia . German officer leads Italian askaris in Abyssinian guerrilla warfare

Alex Buchner: The miracle of Remagen . How it came about, despite all preparations for the demolition, that the Remagen bridge fell undamaged into the hands of the American armed forces

Joh. Schulz: Drive to doom

Gerhard H. Rudolf: The enemy in the crosshairs. With the Me 109 from Yugoslavia to the Aegean Sea

Leo West: Locked in with Zhitomir

Joh. Schulze: To the commanding officer! Clouds of smoke in 120-347

Axel Borcke: The partisans of Lapitischi

Heinrich H. Bernig: Rommel's tanks attack. The German-Italian Africa Corps in action against elite troops of the British Empire

Peter Paus: Torpedoed from the air

Gerhard H. Rudolf: At the gates of Moscow

Benno Wagram: Fatal duel. The desperate defensive battle of German fighter pilots against an overwhelming superiority on the invasion front

Joh. Schulz: Order: breakthrough

HJ Korten: Hellish days and nights. Caen - a focal point in the Battle of Normandy

Gerhard H. Rudolf: Check the convoy. The use of the German Air Force in the Arctic Ocean

Ralph Lion: The last in the sky. The last major attack by German fighter pilots on New Year's morning in 1945

H. Brämer: Flames over East Prussia. German soldiers save a refugee stretch

Joh. Schulz: The nightshade fleet. German destroyers and speedboats attacking the allied invasion fleet

HG Richardi: Flashing signals at Charleur Bay. German naval officers attempt to escape - and U 536 is waiting on the St. Lawrence River

H. Bernig: Montgomery's 8th Army attacks. German soldiers in the decisive battle of the African campaign

Alex Buchner: The last four of the battalion. The Russian breakthrough at Baranov

Peter Paus: British Lancaster in deep attack.

Dirk Hansen: Convoy route North Cape. Outpost boats secure German supply traffic in the North Sea

Heinrich H. Bernig: The green devils

Dietrich Köhr: Your last company

Edmund Breslau: With the eyes of the eagle. German long-range reconnaissance aircraft from the Orkneys to Malta

Joh. Schulz: MG - fire free! Retreat fighting in the western Caucasus

Benno Wagram: D-520 calls Pharaoh. The daring deployment of a German espionage group in France

Joh. Schulz: Your daring prank. Trips and end of the boat R 212

Dietrich Köhr: The saving jump. Downed American aviator on an adventurous route to its own lines

Werner Kortwich: Purgatory Guadalcanal

Peter Paus: The first rocket fighters. The story of the manned missile flight

GH Rudolf: Nettuno bridgehead. The "Green Devils" in the battle for Anzio-Nettuno

Peter Paus: Death from the Clouds. Major attack by the German air force on the British island

Leo West: VB of the 6th battery. As advanced observer in the winter battle of 1942/1943

Fred Nemis: Code name "Cesare Eins". Italian combat swimmers and German paratroopers attack an Allied port

Michael Sauer: Cut off ... With a hospital train full of wounded through the enemy lines

Helmut Lorenz: Until the last grenade. Battle and sinking of the battleship "Bismark"

Udo Wolter: U 47. Günther Prien sinks the battleship "Royal Oak"

Peter Paus: pioneers ahead! A German tank corps in the Oder basin

Gustav Kuhs: Hexenkessel Lublin. Landser retreating between the Bug and the Vistula

Fred Nemis: Death March over the Ilmen Lake. The Spanish "Division Azul" side by side with their German allies on the Eastern Front

Peter Paus: Company "Baby-Blitz". The last major attacks by German bombers against England

Leo West: The end at Kursk

Gerhard H. Rudolf: Between sky and sea. German air transport over the Aegean Sea

Peter Paus: Got away again

Gerhard H. Rudolf: Hellfire over Caen. Air battles by German Me-fighters over the invasion front

Hans Brämer: That was the Fomino height. 24 tons of explosives tore up the Fomino Heights - a focal point of the central section in the east

Benno Wagram: Attack at an altitude of 8,000 meters. Life and death duel between German fighters and Allied bombers

Hans Ludwig Danitz: Seven behind the enemy front

Rudolf, GH Night over Poland. The German Air Force in the lightning campaign of the 18 days

Leo West: Marching direction - home! From the heavy fighting of retreat between the Vistula and the Ore Mountains

Alex Buchner: Men against concrete and steel. The 215th Infantry Division forces the breakthrough through the Maginot Line in 1940

Ferdinand Ludwig: The last man in the company. The collapse of the German front in southern France

Peter Henn: The flight of a thousand miles. A glory in British Air Force history

Leo Brav: On the way to Moscow. With the 19th Panzer Division through rain, wetness and mud to the gates of the Russian capital

Peter Paus: Gray wolves are attacking. The last major submarine battle in the Atlantic

Axel von Borcke: Alert level one. A base crew fighting against Soviet troops and partisans

Heinrich H. Berning: Tiger in front of Caen. Heavy Panzer Division 501 on the Normandy Front

GH Rudolf: Shot down over Liège. Victory and demise of the German air force in the west

Joh. Schulz: Flotilla of Death. Battle and sinking of the 10th T. Flotilla

Peter Dux: "Winter Storm" and "Thunderbolt". The unsuccessful advance of German tanks to liberate the enclosed 6th Army

Joh. Schulz: The lost army. The end of the German Africa Corps

Gerhard H. Rudolf: Four in one Thu 17

Helmut Lorenz: Convoy battle. The German submarine weapon in the first years of the war

Benno Wagram: Tundra - White Hell. Air battles over the Arctic Ocean

Peter Dux: Army in the pocket. The encirclement of the 1st Panzer Army between Bug and Dniester in March 1944

Joh. Schulz: Sunk before Someri. Soviet land, sea and air forces fight over a Finnish island in the Baltic Sea

Peter Paus: Company "Sled Dog". German and Allied soldiers in the battle for Sicily

Joh. Schulz: Six years of submarine warfare. Chronicle of a weapon

Special books

In addition to the above issues, 47 additional issues were published between 1958 and 1961 as "Soldier Stories - Special Volume".

literature

Klaus F. Geiger: War novels in the FRG. Contents and functions , Tübingen 1974.
Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Vol. 1: The boom after 1945 - from Billy Jenkins to Perry Rhodan , Lüneburg (Dieter von Reeken Verlag) 2005. ISBN 3-8334-3232-2

Web links

Example for the cover design: Volker Nerbuch: The hell of Dien Bien Phu. Foreign legionaries fight in the jungle fortress of Indochina (vol. 24) [1]
Example of the cover design: HJ Korten: Special Company Baghdad. Action by German defense in Iraq (vol. 74) [2]
List of special volumes with images at romanhefte.de