I read that Monke lost his foot in 41 on a Yugoslavian air atack. How could he manage to keep on active duty until 45

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Mohnke passed away on 6.August 2001.Luft300 wrote:Is he still alive or has he passed away? I have two autographed photos of him - very interesting... they are identical except one is of him as an SS-Standartenführer and the other his rank has been upgraded to SS-Brigadeführer by airbrushing. He has the same cap, head and face exactly the same... I also found once an autographed photo of another Waffen-SS officer with his Knight's Cross airbrushed in... it is considerably smaller than the Knight's Cross is supposed to be. I've also seen the exact same picture of him without the Knight's Cross... interesting how they did that.
As for the common soldier going back into combat, I remember seeing video footage of soldiers with limbs missing and them having artificial limbs applied... I wonder if at the end, for the defense of a city, that these men might have been rounded up and forced to fight as well?
Marc, I have often thought that Mohnke and Peiper may have been together in January of 1945 as Mohnke had ear damage in an air raid after the Ardennes Offensive (January 1945) and Peiper suffered a 'Comotio cerebri' (concussion) in January 1945. Peiper had been re-assigned to LAH headquarters and Ralf Tiemann in LAH IV/2 says that Mohnke and Peiper were visiting units together. This would be the most simple explanation for both injuries.Marc Rikmenspoel
Mohnke was supposedly suffered ear damage in an air raid just after the Ardennes Offensive. This may well be what happened, but it is possible other issues made him stay in Berlin in early 1945 (I have NO idea what the truth is, maybe Mohnke was having morphine trouble, or perhaps his drinking bouts played a part, or it is even possible his nerves were shot, as happened to Peiper during 1944.
This information is completely new for me !! Nevertheless this is absolutely nonsense.Gall bladder problems can come from unusual weight loss
Thank you, alan, for this very interesting document. Unfortunately I have problems with # 7:alan wrote:Dieter, Iwillattempt to post a document listing Peiper's wounds and illnesses dated 30 January 1945. You may have to blow up the attachment, but look at number 7,the only illness among the 9 items listed. This is a fairly well known document signed by the regimental doctor ( Stickel) and Peiper's adc (Grule) .