Stabsfeldwebel Waldemar Ullmann  Ullmann was born on the 17th of March 1910 in the area of Reuthen, Germany into a catholic family. Ullmann married during his service in 1941, although oddly it seems his wife was removed as next of kin.  Ullmann volunteered for service in October 1929, with Infanterie Regiment 7 , as part of the 100,000 Man Reichswehr! His Kompanie was the 13th Kompanie which was named in honour:  Schlesisches Füsilier-Regiment “General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke” Nr. 38 Infanterie Regiment 470 / 260 Infanterie Division – From Belarus to Moscow!  According to Ullmanns Wehrpass he served in the following actions, here an extract from the history books.  The move to the eastern front began on June 30, 1941. The train went to Siedlce, which was reached on July 4th. Unloading took place here and the march into the Wysokie Litowskie area was carried out until July 6th. As a corps reserve, the division then marched via Pruzana and Baranowicze to Lubany. There IR 470 had its first skirmishes with Russian units. On July 19, the march continued in the direction of Berezovka and on July 20, parts of the regiment attacked Romanishche together with the IR 460. At 8:20 p.m. the location could be taken. The attack continued on July 21st. The regiment crossed the Rudyanka River, passed through Pess’tschanya, and took Chernin in the evening. On July 23, the battle of Romanishche broke out and was to be retaken by the Russians. This was prevented by the 260th Infantry Division. On July 27th the regiment marched further north.   After Rudjaanka was reached, the division and the regiment set up to secure the front. From August 5th, an attack to the south was launched to close the gap between Army Groups Central and South. On August 10, the division was replaced by the 45th Infantry Division and marched north again. On the night of August 12th the Berezina was crossed at Shazilki and the Dnieper at Streschin on August 13th. They then met their army corps and attempted to prevent the enemy forces from breaking out between Rogachev and Shlobin. The regiment had to fend off difficult enemy breakthrough attempts. On August 19th the encirclement was over and the regiment marched south again towards Gomel. On August 23, the movement began with an attack in the direction of Chernigov in order to enclose the enemy armies near Kiev. Parts of the division had reached Desna by August 30th. On September 1, the regiment began its attack on Kisseleska from the heights around Tschernisch. When the 5th Company reached the bank of the Desna, a platoon succeeded in crossing the river with river boats and forming a bridgehead. The regiment extended the bridgehead to the villages of Poski, Wibli and Uborki. The next day it had to fend off severe counterattacks. Via Chernigov, Kiev was advanced further and the return route of the Russian troops was cut off. The division established itself on the Chernigov-Kiev road and repelled all Russian attacks. The badly battered division and thus the regiment no longer took part in the further fighting during the Battle of Kiev. It stayed in the positions it had reached and rested. It was not until September 14 that the regiment marched again, this time to the northeast in the direction of Bryansk and then further north to Dubrovka. The first frost occurred on September 27th. At the end of September the 52nd Infantry Division was relieved at Dubrowka.   On the night of October 2, the regiment began to attack Moscow. The regiment crossed the Dessna and formed a bridgehead. By the evening 120 bunkers had been knocked down and 200 prisoners taken. The first snow fell on October 6th. On October 7th, the Kaluga-Brjansk railway line was taken, and it continued in the direction of Kaluga. But on October 21st, the advance in the baseless mud was stopped. The regiment took up position in the Okatal. At the beginning of November the regiment and the division moved into the Kremenki bridgehead. When the German attack on Moscow resumed on November 13th, the regiment moved into its staging area on either side of Browna and made a deep break in the enemy frontline on the first day of the attack. In spite of this, the division and regiment’s attack remained concentrated in the increasingly fierce enemy resistance. On November 14th, the initiative passed to the Red Army and breached the frontline on the wings of the regiment. The attacks of the regiment did not abate on November 15 either, and only the 260 Artillery Regiment, which fired 2050 shells that day, was able to prevent a breakthrough. But the attacks began again on December 8th. On December 15, Russian units succeeded in breaking through the 52nd Infantry Division, so that the Kremenki bridgehead had to be evacuated. On December 17, the regiment repelled a Soviet attack into the seams of the 260th and 52nd divisions.    At noon, the regiment was overrun by Russian tanks and 40 soldiers were killed. The regiment went back to Radenki. The division was trapped by Russian forces and had to free itself from the encirclement at Christmas. The division withdrew to the Detschino area and moved to the new line on December 31st. Ullmann was wounded in these breakout fights and was lucky to have made it out.    It was not until January 1943 until he was back on the frontline again, now healed from his wounds and now a Stabsfeldwebel.  Serving with the Machine Gun Company of Infanterie Regiment 684 / 335 Infanterie Division  The division was then transferred to France as an occupying force and used to secure the coast in Brittany and near Marseille. In October 1942 the division was reclassified into an attack division and in February 1943 it was transferred to the 1st Panzer Army on the Don. Heavy defensive battles followed on the Donets and in the Voroshilovgrad area by August 1943. In September and…

SS- Zögling Wladimir Korytowskyj  Korytowskyj was born on the 6th of September 1928 in Sahiericzko, Ukraine. (Galizien)  He was found fit for service (With : Flieger-Ersatz-Btl.III Einstellungs-Kommando I Eger)  in September 1944, at only 16 years old.  SS-Zögling refers to a juvenile SS pupil who was not yet eligible to join the formal SS. In Eastern Europe and the Baltic states (in this case Hungary), these members were tasked to defend and guard airfields, buildings, warehouses, workshops, factories, etc. against enemy aircraft attacks. He would join Flakabteilung 755, it seems they served for a short time in Flensburg, then at the military airport Jagel. According to a survivor of the unit, they were armed with 3.7cm Flak and were later deployed on the Oder Front. Many of the young men reported missing seem to be in the area just east of Berlin in Fürstenwalde in April 1945, just as the Red Army advanced on Berlin. Although the author of the article below ended up a little further south in the Halbe Pocket.  It is unknown what the fate of this young boy was, he is not reported as missing or as killed in action.  Survivors Account:  http://www.hphansen.de/assets/applets/Allzeit_meine_Pflicht.pdf An interesting and rare book for a young SS recruit, interestingly others from this unit are seen on the market. There is not many, but they seem to be from a hoard find.

Oberstleutnant Otto Schebek  Schebek was born into a Roman Catholic family on the 26th of May 1893 in Unterreichenau, Germany. He was a career Officer who had served in WW1 earning various awards.  The Soldbuch was opened when Schebek  in the 18th of September 1939 with:  Infanterie Regiment 499 / 268 Infanterie Division It seems he did not spend long with the above unit before being posted for a short while to the following Frontline units:  Marsch Bataillon Gebirgsjäger z.b.V 4 –  Stab   Unknown  Infanterie Regiment (Kroat) 383, II Battalion   According to the stamps on Schebeks leave, it is safe to assume he was with the IR 383 from late 1942 through to June 1944. It would seem Schebek was serving in some sort of command role working between the new recruits in the Croatian Training unit and the frontline unit. In 1943 he was issued a set of Binoculars and a compass.  Interestingly, on a side note the replacement unit was based in Stockerau, where Schebek would pass away in 1975.  Another point to note here is that on the 6th of August 1943, Schebeks men (II./ Inf Reg 383)  were attacked in Prijedor (Modern day Bosnia Herz) the daily report states that about 4 kilometer north of Prijedor the unit was attacked. Losses: 3 deaths, 8 missing, 6 horses dead. According to reports of the ones who have returned alive civilians, even women have taken part in the killing. In retaliation 2./Pz-Jäg.- Abt 373 burned the surrounding houses, but nobody was there. (Archive document attached).      Infanterie-Bataillon der Luftwaffe 81 In late 1944 till the end of the war Schebek likely commanded the four companies of this unit as it operated behind the front lines in Slovakia, in the position of the 8th Army.  Schebek survived the war, and was an academic painter, who had his works shown in various galleries, sometimes his art came up for sale in Austria. He passed away in 1975 in Stockerau, where today a small street is named after him. In 1993 an exhibition featured some of works in a special on his career as a painter.  Comments Interesting Soldbuch to a Lt-Colonel who spent some time training and with frontline units, a verteran of the First World War, he was an experienced Officer. Not often to find such ranks anymore in Soldbuchs.