Heer Wehrpass – Schütze Lamy – Infanterie Regiment 673 (376 Inf Div) – Death Letter – Signature Generalleutnant Stümpfl

Heer Wehrpass issued to Johann Lamy. 

He served with the RAD with Army Group North behind the front lines. 

A few pages are missing inside this Wehrpass, although luckily its not he important ones! 

On the May 1945, he joined: 

Infanterie Regiment 673 (376 Inf Div) 

It was reformed in the Netherlands in April 1943. Returning to the Eastern Front in November 1943, the division fought in the Ukraine before withdrawing to Romania.

Lamy was killed in June 1942, not long after he arrived on the front. 

A postcard to his mother was wrote short before he was killed, he describes 5 hard days of marching up to 55 KM per day. He mentions the front, and that people are falling away. They are pushing further and further… A sad story and could be further translated. 

A letter to his mother from his officer stated: 

… during an attack on an enemy nest of resistance. A bullet hit his left side, a few mins later he died… He was true to his Oath… 

A letter to his mother from the Commander of Vienna, Generalleutnant Heinrich Stümpfl wrote to her giving his condolences, the document is hand signed. 

Interestingly Generalleutnant Heinrich Stümpfl was hailed as a ‘resistance fighter’ evidence that he had in fact worked against the persecution of individuals lead to him getting an award after he passed away. Seen below: