Waffen-SS Officer Casualty Reports 1941+

[Mikedc]

Hi John,

Thanks for posting these new things, it's all highly interesting like usual....

Greetings, Mike

[Ste]

I was watching the MIA list of Rgt 25, for 8.7.44,and I see that Ustuf Kniepp is not listed.Wasn't he NO of III/25?

[-Michael]

I was wondering, are there maybe also casualty reports from the 6. SS-Freiw.-Sturmbrigade Langemarck during the Einsatz in the Ukraine in the first half of 1944?
Thanks,
Mike

[John P. Moore]

This three-page casualty report from the SS-Kriegsberichter Abteilung for February 1943 reports the death of Ustuf. Fridolin Glass assigned to the 2.SS-Panzer Div. and the severe wounding of Ustuf. Franz Roth, who was assigned to the LSSAH.

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Franz Roth died from his wounds about a month later at the SS hospital in Kiev.

[andernach]

Hello
I have found some information about SS-Polizei-Division officers.
Maybe it is for someone`s interest.
Greetings,
andernach

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[John P. Moore]

Andernach - It was very good of you to post the officer casualty report from the Polizei Division. The number of casualties was very high and the fighting took place every day as one can see from this report. I believe that most of these officers were not even members of the Waffen-SS during 1941. Some of the survivors did become members of the Waffen-SS in April 1942 while others returned to their police duties. This was a uniqiue division in 1941-42 and I look foward to reading more about it in Mark Yerger's Vol 2 DKiG book on this unit which should be out soon.

John

[John P. Moore]

Here is an interesting KIA report for Hstuf. Wolfgang Wuttig, the commander of the SS-Nachr#ichten Abteilung 14 of the SS-Galician division. This report clear states that he was KILLED on 23.7.1944 in Bialy-Kamien (Brody area) following being shot by a fighter plane. The report further states that his body could not be recovered. Another document in his file says that he was KIA near Brody on 22.7.1944. However, Wuttig was not dead. A report from 1955 names Wuttig as being among the Soviet POWS who were released in October 1955. Wuttig died of old age in July 1996. This is a perfect example of how actual period documents can sometimes be misleading.

John

[Melnyk]

Hi

as a matter of interest Wuttig later wrote a post was account of his experiences entitled 'Auf dem wege in den Ural' in Soviet captivity from which he was finally released in October 1955

best wishes

Mike Melnyk

[John P. Moore]

I was looking through some old folders today when I found this document from the former SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Krüger (LAH and HJ) that he had sent to me back in 1985. These are cemetery lists of men from the "Hitler Jugend" division who were KIA in Normandy during 1944 and members of the HJ and LAH who were KIA in Austria in 1945. No dates of death are given for France, but they can be looked up at the VDK Web site.

http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html

I will start with the British cemetery at Chieux - Manvieu where many German soldiers are also buried.

John

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