Everlasting Scars/Wounds Of Third Reich Personalities

[pavel michalek]

Artur Axmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Axmann

In 1941, he was severely wounded on the eastern front, losing an arm.

[pavel michalek]

Unknown SS officer:


http://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/

[AlifRafikKhan]

Generalmajor Hermann Schulte-Heuthaus (1898-1979)
The commander of 90./ Leichte "AFRIKA" Division (17-22 September 1942). He was the last commander of Brandenburg PG division, and died on 28 December 1979 in Berlin. I don't the background of how he lost his arm...

Short bio :
Born at Weissensee in East Prussia on 15 January 1898, he was an officer cadet in 1914 then a Leutnant (infantry) in 1915. He left the army in 1920. Reactivated in 1934 with the rank of Hauptmann, he became an instructor at the A/CO infantry school at Potsdam. At the outbreak of World War II, he was a Major and still employed at the Potsdam school. Promoted to Oberstleutnant on 1 August 1940 and Oberst on 1 April 1942. During this period, he commanded l./lnf.Rgt. 1 (10 February 1940), Kradschtz.Btl. 25 (1 May 1941) before being appointed to the general staff of Pz.Armee "Afrika". He was interim commander of 90. Lei.Afrika Div. from 17 to 22 September 1942. Promoted to Generalmajor on 1 March
1945, he went on to command Füs.Rgt. "Grossdeutschland" (7 July 1943) then Ersatz- Brig. "Kottbus" (27 March 1944) and Pz.Gren.Div. "Brandenburg" (16 October 1944). He died on 28 December 1979. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (23 January 1942)...

Source :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75483767@N00/3267966296
http://www.afrikakorps.org/dakkommandeurs.htm

[AlifRafikKhan]

Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube (1890-1944)

Hube joined the German Army on 27 February 1909, and after officer training, was assigned as a Fahnenjunker to Infantry Regiment Nr. 26 Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, based at Magdeburg. With the outbreak of war in August 1914, Hube, now a platoon leader in the 26th, was sent to the front. He saw action during the early period of the war, being promoted to adjutant of the 26th's second battalion. On 20 September 1914, he was severely wounded at Fontenoy, Aisne, and as a result had his left arm amputated...

After a year convalescing, Hube once again returned to the front, this time as the 26th's 7.Company commander. By early 1918, he was acting as a standing General Staff officer with the 7th Infantry Division. On 10 April 1918, while commanding the defence against an English tank attack, Hube received severe gas poisoning. He spent the next year convalescing in hospital, seeing the end of the war from his hospital bed...

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Valentin_Hube
http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_3724425_1.html

[Anil]

Oberstleutnant Wilhelm Walther



source: http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... 262&page=3

[Anil]

Oberst Karl Lorenz. Last commander of Großdeutschland Division.





source : http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... 262&page=3

[Anil]

Dr. Eberhard Zahn.

source : http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... ost3461064

[AlifRafikKhan]

Oberleutnant Johannes Morawitez. Look at the scars on his head!

Source : http://www.finearts-autographs.com/file ... m_k_01.jpg

[AlifRafikKhan]

unidentified officer with Schmiß...

Source : http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... p?t=360262

The moderator deleted two dispensable pics without relevant value of information !!
They only bloat the thread artifically. Please stop definitively to do so !!!

Dieter Zinke

[AlifRafikKhan]

Major Walter Koch with his bandage...

Source : "German Airborne Troops 1939-1945" from Osprey

[AlifRafikKhan]

Athens - Berlin .... in a few hours!

The German Army Medical Service as regards the validity of its model facilities and above all the measures for the repatriation of wounded fastest unique in the world. When done anything feasible, to transport the wounded and sick by means of rapid and large aircraft...

Even the wounded Ritterkreuzträger Major Walter Koch, the conquerors of Eben Emael, returns in this way into the home...

Source : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... r_Koch.jpg

[AlifRafikKhan]

Heinrich Born. Born's most unusual signature results from the loss of his arm at the end of the war!

Source : http://www.hotlinecy.com/kcapg1.htm

[AlifRafikKhan]

Oberleutnant Werner Karl von Haeften (9 October 1908 - 21 July 1944)

With the start of World War II, served on the Eastern Front...

Returned to Berlin after being severely wounded on Eastern Front. Treated by surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch (same physician that treated von Stauffenberg?). His wounds (to the back/hip, cause from gunshot) rendered him unfit for further duty at the front. After recovery, served as Adjutant to Stauffenberg in the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW)...

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Haeften
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 4&t=148132
http://www.gdw-berlin.de/db_images/gross/2641.jpg

[AlifRafikKhan]

SS-Standartenführer und Oberst der Polizei Rudolf Pannier (10 July 1897-19 August 1978)

He was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer and while recuperating from his many wounds, received the German Cross in Gold. He commanded an anti-partisan unit in Russia. In September 1944 he was transferred to the 14 Galician Division as regimental commander with WGR 31 at Neuhammer. A former Ukrainian officer who served as a staff officer with WGR 31 suggests that because of his wounds which had left him with a permanent limp, Pannier often took morphine injections to which he later became addicted. As a result "he often gave foolish and unreasonable orders". On 9th April 1945 he was wounded again at the front. Two separate accounts by witnesses of how Pannier received his wound concur that it was due to his arrogance and failing to conduct himself properly when in an exposed position...

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Pannier
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=35101

[AlifRafikKhan]

Erich Heintze,Luftwaffe Unteroffizier 3./Flak-Rgt. 33 (mot) (1916-1998)...

Served with another Flak RKTs Gefreiter Arnold Huebner.Awarded RK 7th March 1942 for actions at Hill 208,Sollum.Badly wounded and did not return to front line service...



Source : http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=Flak+RKT