GERMAN ARMY RANK TABLE COMPARATION

GERMAN ARMY RANK TABLE COMPARATION
HEER	LUFTWAFFE	KRIEGSMARINE
Grenadier	Flieger	Matrose
Obergrenadier	-	-
Gefreiter Obergefreiter Stabsgefreiter	Gefreiter Obergefreiter Hauptgefreiter Stabsgefreiter	Matrosengefreiter Matrosenobergefreiter Matrosenhauptgefreiter Matrosenstabsgefreiter
Unteroffizier	Unteroffizier	Maat
Unterfeldwebel	Unterfeldwebel	Obermaat
Fähnrich	-	Fähnrich zur See
Feldwebel	Feldwebel	Feldwebel
Oberfeldwebel Hauptfeldwebel	Oberfeldwebel	Stabsfeldwebel Oberfeldwebel
Oberfähnrich	-	Oberfähnrich zur See
Stabsfeldwebel	Stabsfeldwebel	Stabsoberfeldwebel
Leutnant	Leutnant	Leutnant zur See
Oberleutnant	Oberleutnant	Oberleutnant zur See
Hauptmann	Hauptmann	Kapitänleutnant
Major	Major	Korvettenkapitän
Oberstleutnant	Oberstleutnant	Fregattenkapitän
Oberst	Oberst	Kapitän zur See Kommodore
Generalmajor	Generalmajor	Vizeadmiral
Generalleutnant	Generalleutnant	Konteradmiral
General	General	Admiral
Generaloberst	Generaloberst	Generaladmiral
Generalfeldmarschall	Generalfeldmarschall	Grossadmiral
-	Reichsmarschall	-

THE SECRET WAR - WE WAITED FOR THEM IN DAKAR

At some night in the ends of 1942, the German submarines fleets of the South Atlantic received urgent order for drive at all speed to an encounter point in Dakar. Few days later, a very superior number of those submarines outlined the western tip of Africa. In earth, Vichy French troops occupied the strong coastal defenses that, two years before, had repelled the attack of the British and Free French Armies, commanded by General De Gaulle. The force of American invasion that crossed the Atlantic would fall into a disastrous ambush. That was the opinion of the German High Command.

OTHER GERMAN UNITS IN NORTH AFRICA

Other German Division in North Africa. There are no originaly Afrika Korps members, but somethimes they are refered as this:

GERMAN ARMY ORGANIZATION

DAK GUNS - Panzer II - Light Tank

THE GERMAN WEAPONS SUPERIORITY

The fact that Rommels Deutsche AfrikaKorps in North Africa contained equipment which was far more advanced and effective than the Eighth Armies equivalent meant that the campaign lasted much longer than it may have done otherwise, whilst at the same time there were not sufficient numbers of them to become a decisive factor in the campaign. For instance, when the British launched Operation Crusader in late November 1941 “the 8th Army outnumbered the combined Axis force (118,000 men to 113,000), had 680 tanks (with 500 in reserve or in supply) to Rommels 390 and 1000 British planes confronted 320 Axis aircraft. What the Times Atlas of the Second World War and many other history books does not mention is that these statistics are completely misleading as one British tank is not equal to one Panzer whilst “The Eighth Army`s air support, though numerically superior, was qualitatively inferior and in making this mistake it is not alone. It was not until the Second battle of El Alamein that the Allies possessed the sufficient superiority in numbers to offset the technical superiority that the Axis force enjoyed. This is an important point that is very rarely mentioned in literature on the Second World War let alone the North African theatre, where technical superiority was of utmost importance due to the precarious nature of supplying an army.