WWII Waffen SS Soldbuch – Ukrainian Born SS-Schütze Neudorf – SS-Wehrgeologen – Massacre in Italy & France 1944 – Ultra Rare Unit max 600 Men (Sold)

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Neudorf was born in Ukraine and served in one of the oddest Waffen SS units known. I was unable to find any other Soldbuch for a member of this unit. Apart from doing excavations and preparing special defences, they engaged partisans in Italy, and are mentioned by various sources for taking part in the Pedescala massacre in Italy.
His Soldbuch was issued by, Prof. Gustav Riek (see below for his career – Himmlers Staff)

The unit:Himmler ‘s SS had set up a special department of geologists: it was the ” SS-Wehrgeologen Bataillon (mot) 500″ set up between 1941 and 1942 in Hamburg-Langerhorn. Then in the summer of 1943 a department was sent to Italy , in the Reggio Emilia area , while the other units were sent, on March 16, 1944 , to the Breton region in France . In Italy they had to officially prepare the fortifications for the “Blaue Linien” between Trentino and Veneto . After 8 September 1943 , at least 200 Italians, including 5 officers, joined that unit, so that by April 1944 the unit had a strength of 12 officers, 50 non-commissioned officers and 580 men, with the following armament: 27 MG, 6 mittl. Gr.Werfer, 60 machine guns, 450 rifles.

In the spring of 1945 the “SS-Wehrgeologen Btl ” was stationed on the Folgaria plateau in Trentino, and was under the command of Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Rolf Hohne, born on 26 September 1908 , who had led in 1936 the excavations in the castle of Quedlinburg , where the skull of Henry I the Fowler was found , the mythical king of the Saxons, of which the head of the SS , Heinrich Himmler, believed to be the reincarnation.
Some of the purposes of this special SS unit was also the search for sources of water, minerals and precious stones. Research carried out above all on the Carpathians, through excavations in archaeological sites and explorations of natural caves.
Now, this SS Unitt was inspired by the studies of Wilhelm Teudt , director of the “Ortungslinienforschung” department of the Ahnenerbe , and by those of Josef Heinsch relating to the theory of the “Heilige-linien” , who maintained that Trieste could be the place of contact or one of the doors to the afterlife, or one of the crossing points to another world.

In 1943-1945, when the impending defeat of the Third Reich became obvious, the SS geologists were sent to southern France and Italy, to work on the Blue Line. Blu line was a system of fortifications, to be built in the Prealps, to stop the allies, invading at the time Sicily during ‘Operation Husky.’ An even more ambitious plan included the idea to use the mountains as the Alpenfestung, the Alps-fortress, as a last refugium for the Nazis. At this time the unit comprised more than 600 men, including geologists and soldiers. In the Italian city of Trieste, the Wehrgeologen helped in the construction of ‘Small Berlin’, a system of underground bunkers. During this operation, the geologists explored also caves and ancient mines, in part for minerals and resources, but also searching for the mythical entrance to a supposed ancient underground reign. Supposedly, strange galleries of unknown origin were discovered. At least some members also studied supposed earth-force-fields. Wilhelm Teudt and Josef Heinsch, both researchers at the Ahnenerbe, believed that streams of energy, following Ley-Lines, crossed beneath the city of Trieste.

Today, Nazi geologists searching the entrance to the Hollow Earth sounds like the plot for a bad movie. This should not hide the cruel reality of the war and the regime. The SS Wehrgeologen were also involved in war crimes. In the village of Laita various civilians were executed by the bataillon 500. The villages of Pedescala and Settecà, in the province of Trentino, were both burned to the ground and 83 civilians killed. This happened during the withdraw of the German troops in the last days of World War II, an involvement of the SS geologists seems also possible in this case.

Signatures: Page 2 –  Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in Stuttgart − November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe in their excavations, and led the teams that excavated the Vogelherd Cave in 1931, the Heuneburg Tumulus burial mounds in 1937 and the Brillenhöhle 1955–63. At Vogelherd, Riek discovered ivory figurines of the Aurignacian archeological tradition. Gustav Riek studied geology and was a scientific assistant in Halle/Saale and at the Prehistoric Institute of the University of Tübingen. In 1934 he habilitated with the work Die Eiszeitjägerstation am Vogelherd in the Lonetal and became a lecturer at the University of Tübingen. In 1935 Riek was appointed associate professor and director of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History. In 1929 he became a member of the NSDAP, in 1933 he joined the SA and was a block warden as well as archive and press warden. In 1937 Riek became a member of the SS. From 1933 he was also a member of the Reich Association of German Civil Servants (RDB), from 1934 in the NS-People’s Welfare (NSV) and in the NS-Altherrenbund (NSAHB), from 1935 in the NS-Dozentenbund (NSDDB) and for this man of trust at the Mathematical -Faculty of natural sciences at the University of Tübingen and in the same year a member of the Reichskolonialbund (RKB). In the SS Ahnenerbe he worked on Germanic prehistoric research. In March 1941, Riek was appointed to the personal staff of Reichsfuhrer SS (RFSS) Heinrich Himmler. In December 1941 Riek received the SS Totenkopfring and the Julgabe of the ancestral heritage. From January 1940 to March 1942 he was responsible for the political training of prisoners in the SS special camp in Hinzert, first as Obersturmfuhrer and then as Hauptsturmfuhrer of the Waffen-SS. In the fall of 1941, Riek was involved in the murder of 70 Soviet prisoners of war by injecting potassium cyanide. According to Strobel 2003, p. 452, Riek was “probably the only German prehistorian who exercised command functions in a camp”. From March 1942 he served in the military geologist battalion Hamburg-Langenbohm of the Waffen-SS and was then company commander of an engineer unit of the SS Mountain Division North in Karelia with the task of drilling drinking water wells. From 1945 he was captured by the Soviets, then a Polish prisoner of war and after his return in 1948 he was briefly interned by the French occupying forces, but was soon released again.

Page 23 – Siegfried Blattmann (born February 2, 1910 in Paris, died around 1947) was a German geologist.Blattmann received his doctorate in 1934 at the University of Tübingen (The deformation types of the Radstadt Tauern) and was an assistant at the Mineralogical Institute there. In 1938/39 he was at the Prussian Geological State Institute[1] (in August 1938 he also applied for admission to the Geological State Institute in Vienna)[2]. During World War II, he served as an Untersturmfuhrer in the SS Wehrgeologist Battalion (commanded by Rolf Höhne) and for oil exploration in occupied areas. Most recently, he belonged to Unit 500, which in 1944/45 expanded the Blue Line reception area in northern Italy (some companies fought with partisans and took revenge on the civilian population, such as the Pedescala massacre in May 1945).