Description
Heer Wehrpass to Gefreiter Gores, from Düsseldorf.
Grenadier Regiment 117 ( 111 Inf Division)
After crossing the bow, the division marched via Dubno, Kiev and the Dnieper to the area east of Poltava. From June 1942, the division took part in the advance into the Caucasus. The advance of the division went via Shakhty, Rostov, Novorossiysk, Krassnodar and Armavir to the Terek near Mozdok. From January 1943 the division then withdrew over the Kuban bridgehead to the Mius position near Taganrog. In the second half of the year, the withdrawal continued via Uspenskaya, Melitopol to the Nikopol bridgehead. In March 1944, the division moved to the Crimea, where it was used at Dschankoi, in the Sivash bridgehead and in Sevastopol.
In a last letter to his wife, he wrote how he wished it was all a dream and that he could come home to be with her and the kids, and that she should stay strong. A sad letter to read, in clear German.
A letter from the company commander gave the news to her a few months later that he was killed in action.
