The Fall of Berlin 1945
“BdM Bund deutscher Mädel, League of German Girls, female equivalent of Hitler Youth. Fritz Russian name for a German soldier. The plural was used for Germans in general. frontovik Red Army soldier with frontline experience. Ivan (or Iwan in German), an ordinary Soviet soldier. Term used by Red Army as well as Germans. Kessel (German for 'a cauldron') a group of forces encircled by the enemy. Landser an ordinary German soldier with frontline experience. The equivalent of the Red Army frontovik. ...NKVD Soviet secret police under control of Lavrenty Beria. Military NKVD units - NKVD rifle divisions made up mostly of NKVD frontier guards regiments - were attached to each Soviet Front command. The NKVD chief with each Front was answerable only to Beria and Stalin, not to the military chain of command in the Red Army. OKH Oberkommando des Heeres, in theory the supreme headquarters of the German Army, but in the later stages of the war its most important role was operational command of the Eastern Front.MoreLess
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