Wehrmacht Soldbuch  Issued June 1940, to Josef Niewiera. Frontline Units Stalag IIID Berlin – (1940 – 1942) The camp was established on 14 August 1940 on the corner of Landweg and Osdorfer Straße in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The commandant and camp administration offices (Kommandantur) were later located at Belle-Alliance-Straße 106-107, in Kreuzberg. With prisoners from Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Poland, United States, Italy and Czechoslovakia, the camp’s maximum capacity was 58,000 men. Prisoners were mostly allocated to sub-camps (Zweiglager) and work details (Arbeitskommando) in and around the city. Grenadier (Festungs) Regiment 863 (1943 – 1944/45) The 348th Infantry Division was created on 14 September 1942 for the OB West during World War II. The unit was formed as a ground-based division. The officer corps and the majority of the non-commissioned officers had combat experience from other theaters of war and were transferred to the division either after recovering or from a deployment at home. The troops were mostly made up of older, poorly trained soldiers. The reinforcements and supply troops were only poorly trained and reliant on fixed installations. After its formation, the division was deployed from November 1942 onwards to protect the coast in the Dieppe area and to the northeast. At the time of the Allied landings at Dieppe in August 1942, the division was still training in the hinterland and did not directly intervene in the fighting on the beachhead. After the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, the division remained in the Dieppe area and was not transferred to Normandy until mid-August 1944. During the fighting there, the division was wiped out within a very short time and officially disbanded on September 29, 1944.   Equipment / Medals Personal D.W Pistol , War Merit Cross with Swords – 20.4.1943 It seems he was either captured or there are no records on him or his fate.

Issued to Kurt Neuhausser Marine-Flak-Abteilung 702 Formed 6.40 in Trondheim with 6 companies (no Stab, attached to 701).In 2.41 absorbed 701 (Stab/701 became Stab/702), now with 11 batteries(1-11, and later 12). In 4.44 part of the unit was used to form 701, now only 7 batteries Subordinated to Seekdt. Drontheim, from 4.44, 32. Marine-Flak-Regiment Photos can be found here from the unit in Norway. https://krigsbilder.net/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=29&page=8 Seems Neuhausser was sent to a POW Camp in Sandefjord Norway.

Interesting KIA Wehrpass to Heinz Füchtenkort. He initially volunteered for service with the Infanterie Regiment Grossdeutschland GD Although he served on the front in a Anti-Tank Company with Grenadier Regiment 110. Trained on the PaK 3,7 as the gunner. He was killed due to a grenade splinter in his left side of his back, according to his record card in the German Archive he died on board the plane to a Hospital.

Kapralik was enlisted in the German Army in 1938, with the Austrian Aufklarungs Regiment 9 (Vienna). He was trained on the K98, Luger P08 and the MG34 and KwK30! The regiment was set up with a 1st (motorcycle) division with 4 squadrons and a 2nd (tank reconnaissance) division with 3 squadrons. After it was set up, the regiment was placed under the command of the 4th Light Division. While it was still being set up, the regiment marched into Slovakia from 9th to 18th October 1938. The regiment remained there until it moved to its deployment area west of the High Tatras on 19th August 1939. The Polish campaign began on 1st September 1939 with the advance from the Beskids via Tarnow and Rzeszow to the San. The regiment then took part in the encirclement battle at Tomaszow with the front facing west. After the end of the Polish campaign, the regiment remained in Poland until 25th October 1939 and then returned home before finally being relocated to the west of the Reich. During its stay in Poland, the regiment’s leadership also changed. Lieutenant Colonel von Hauschild took over the 7th Panzer Regiment and Lieutenant Colonel Vichytil, commander of the 1st Battalion, took his place as head of the regiment. There the 4th Light Division was converted into the 9th Panzer Division, and the regiment continued to be subordinate to this division. In the Western campaign the regiment joined forces with the paratroopers who had dropped out at Moerdijk on 11 May 1940 and fought their way into Rotterdam. Moved to the Somme for action at Dunkirk, the regiment advanced from 5 June 1940 via Amiens towards Paris and as far as Clermont. Turning south, it left Coulommiers-La Charité on 10 June, where the secret files of the French General Staff were captured. It continued towards Lyon and Roanne, which was taken on 19 June. From there, the regiment was thrown to the southwest, reaching Bordeaux before France surrendered. Following the immediate march home, the regiment was disbanded on July 31, 1940, after almost exactly two years of its existence. Killed on the 19.06.1940 in France at 08:30 he was hit in the head with a bullet in Le Monjon , he was buried at the Castle Taligny. His body was later moved to Andilly France.