Ciao a tutti,
last night I was back at home and this is for to say "Thank You" for a nice day with nice points of view, more nice Panzernests and the most nice of all: Strudel out of tracers kitchen!!!
For this "strange German with his Panzernest" it was the first excursion with finding a new type of nests since two years and so I am glad to tell you some informations about this and others:
Producers are
akh = Bergische Stahlindustrie KG
agh = Saarlà¤ndisches Stahlwerk Dingler, Karcher & Cie
HV (in a circel) = Hà¶rder Verein
We know four other markings (including "no marks") but could not correlate the producers to them and one producers name without ever seen his marks. So there are further questions a lot.
The wikipedia-article in
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzernest contains some errors. So the Stalin-line was built between 1936 and 1941 (some parts earlier), the Panzernest was first shown to Hitler in Oktober 1941 in his headquarter near Winniza/Ukraine. So the right of the two pictures could not be part of the Stalin-line. The sowjets never had them to integrate it into their line. The picture shows an Panzernest in the ukainian museum and is well known especially from his backside with steel-door and in a concret-position.
The left of the pictures is also wrong. It shows a light russian field-fortification, may be the turret of an infantry-tank from the 30ies. This also is part of the museum.
I think, that only the original one should be called "Panzernest", not all this different turrets also.
With greetings to all of you and a last question to Dr. feelgood: Where on earth you took this famous 2. picture???
Florian