Interesting deathcard to a Panzer man KIA on the Gothic Line in September 1944 fighting the Allies See here for some interesting information – http://standwheretheyfought.jimdo.com/italy-2012-2014-the-gothic-line-campaign-1944-futa-pass-and-giogo-pass-then-and-now/   [av_video src=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1L6b9VKAvg’ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′ custom_class=” av_uid=’av-2q90c9′]

Likely a member of Regiment Der Führer! They later would commit a massacre in Oradour and in several other towns they hung people in retaliation for the murdered soldiers. See – As the 2nd SS Division redeployed to Normandy, French resistance fighters harassed it. On June 9, 1944, Lammerding issued orders for the division to “cleanse” the area around Clermont-Ferrand of partisans. That same day, members of the division had displayed what “cleansing” of partisans would mean. In retaliation for an attack, soldiers of Das Reich hanged 99 male inhabitants of the village Tulle, near Limoges. The next day, June 10, 1944, soldiers of the 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 4th SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment (motorized infantry) Der Führer, a subordinate unit of the 2nd SS Panzer Division since April 1944, advanced to the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. Led by the commander of the 1st Battalion, SS Major Adolf Diekmann, the Waffen-SS troops surrounded the village at midday. At that point in time, the village population had almost doubled to about 650 people, swelled by refugees, including some Jewish refugees, from other parts of France. Massacre and destruction of Oradour-sur-Glane
The SS soldiers rounded up the entire population and concentrated them on the market square. Thereafter they separated the villagers by gender. Members of the 1st and 2nd platoons took the 197 men to several barns on the edge of town and locked them in. The 3rd platoon locked up 240 women and 205 children in the village church. Then the SS men set fire to the barns and threw grenades through the windows of the church, shooting those who sought to escape the flames. After 642 inhabitants, including seven Jewish refugees, were dead, the company looted the empty dwellings and then burned the village to the ground. At about 8:00 p.m. on the evening of June 10, the SS men withdrew from the smoking ruins. Only seven villagers survived the massacre: six men and a woman, all of them more or less severely injured. About fifteen other inhabitants of the village were able to escape the Germans before the massacre started or evade the roundup by hiding. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007840 [av_video src=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TwrwJJ3G6w’ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′ custom_class=” av_uid=’av-2i8xz3′]

Nice complete lot – found in the famous Halbe Box find about 19 Years ago in the Ground! See picture for the find picture! These were all from the same company! The Soldier – Benno was KIA from a grenade splinter to his head, able in the SS research was written Unfall – Accident – and considering it was with a grenade it could have been friendly forces. A very rare SS Division – 30th Januar Division. He came from SS Regiment Schill 6/86. Comes with two more original SS Documents, his SS StammKarte is the Pinkish one. I will let the pictures do the talking! An amazing item for any collection, and not another one is for sale online from this Division! I will likely never get another like this! For Details about the fierce battle in Halbe see below – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halbe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32nd_SS_Volunteer_Grenadier_Division_30_Januar His grave is marked online, and could be visited in the Halbe. [av_video src=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AHXaGWv0cE’ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′ custom_class=” av_uid=’av-36s01y’]  

Nice Wehrmacht Zeltbann – No rips or major holes. A few buttons are missing. Overall good condition!