Military leave in 1945?

[Balrog]

I was reading about Dr. Marten shoes and read that Dr. Marten was a German army doctor who thought up the idea for his shoes when he was injured on a ski trip while on leave from the German army in the winter of 1945.

I'm curious. Germany was in the final stages of losing the war, and leave was still being granted? I can see wounded people being sent home, but army doctors well enough to go skiing?

And the resorts in Germany were still operating?

Is this information correct?

[Kilgore Trout]

My wife and I have twice rented a room in a pension in Schollang, Allgau (Bavaria). The female owner has a photo that shows her as a 4-5 year-old girl. Her uncle stands beside her in German Army uniform. He was an obergefreiter and wore the Iron Cross 1st Class and the wound badge. It is a black & white photo, so I do not know if his badge was silver (wounded in action 2X) or gold (3X or more). When I first saw the photo (mid-March 2005), she was weeping because he was 60 years dead that day. He was killed in action in Poland. The photo was taken in late February 1945, the day before he returned to duty.

[kathy]

My uncle (lost Mar '45 @ Danzig) and my mother, an aufseherin, were at home together for the last time during their military leave Christmas, 1944.