Description
A nice Soldbuch issued to Hermann Detmer in Höxter 1944 with a Pioneer Unit.
Detmer was assigned to a few units conducting Pionner work, focusing on bridge building.
In 1944, he was assigned to Grenadier Regiment 941 (353 Inf Div)
Issued with a Iron Ration in August 1944 and a rifle on the 13th of June 1944. Meaning sometime after September of 1944 he was deployed with Grenadier Regiment 941.
Between December 1944 and January 1945, the 353rd Infantry Division operated as part of the LXXXI Army Corps at the Westfall defensive fortifications (Allied parlance: “Siegfried Line”), where it launched a major counterattack on 2 December, which was eventually beaten back by U.S. artillery.[5]
The 353rd Infantry Division was eventually trapped in the Ruhr Cauldron, where it went into American captivity around April 1945.[1] The division’s final commander was Colonel Kurt Hummel, who assumed command on 15 February 1945
Final Comments:
Detmer was captured by Allied Troops in late 1944. He was held in France as a POW according to his POW Papers. He was still a POW in 1946, a further paper shows he was working at the POW Barracks.
