Soldbuch to Feldwebel Winter Soldbuch was issued in August 1939, by the MG Company of Infantry Regiment 91, later Infantry Regiment 522 (297 Infantry Division). He was wounded with a bullet in June 1942 between Charkow and the Don river just before the division would enter Stalingrad. He would earn the Iron Cross, Second Class as well the Infantry Assault Badge, Eastern Front Medal and the Black Wounds Badge as well as the German West Wall Medal (1941). After a stint in hospital his next frontline unit was Grenadier Regiment 755, arriving from Neapal by ship to Africa to join the 5th Panzer Army.  12.1942 issued a Machine Pistol likely a MP40 and arrived in Africa. Something happened that is not recorded in the Soldbuch to this Feldwebel in Africa, the unit was destroyed in Tunis, Tunisia by February 1943 by the British Army.  Although he made it back to Germany and the last entries are with Luftmunitionsanstalt Koenigstaedt, a Luftwaffe base for munition storage. Where they confirmed in 20.4.1943 he was entitled to be awarded the following medals: Iron Cross First Class (334ID), Italian German Medal for Africa and the Afrika cuff-title. The Battle of Tunis 1943  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnQZ1b7zSk

Soldbuch of Gefreiter Anton Hackl    Hackl was enlisted into the Wehrmacht on the 20th of Jan 1943. He would serve in a few frontline units during the war, including a short service in 1944 with Jäger Regiment 40 and Jäger Regiment 25 (42 Jäger Division) first in Croatia where Hackl contracted a contagious disease (Soldbuch Code 12) and was sent to a field hospital for two months. He would later rejoin his unit in Italy in the area of La Spezia in September 1944.   After a period of rest at home on leave Hackl was sent to Hungary where a new unit was being formed. November 1944, Hackl was posted a new unit, to the Stabs Company of Grenadier Regiment 991, (277 Volksgrenadier Division) he was issued warm clothing including extra pullovers and a Camo net. All in preparation for the Ardennes Offensive about to begin.  At the beginning of the Ardennes Offensive on December 16, 1944, the Regiment had the task of penetrating the enemy front line between Hollerath and Udenbreth, taking the villages of Rocherath and Krinkelt and advancing to Vervier via Elsenborn. By December 20th, the two villages could be taken with heavy losses. A further advance was no longer possible. The stall at Elsenborn would go down in infamy as a hard fought battle, from video games to numerous mentions in books Grenadier Regiment 991 was at the heart of the battles fighting alongside the Waffen SS and other elite formations against tough US resistance.  At the beginning of January 1945, the regiment received replacements from Navy and Air Force soldiers with little training. In the fighting for the villages of Rocherath and Krinkelt, the regiment suffered heavy losses again. By the end of January 1945 it had been pushed back to its original position. Here the regiment was disbanded after the death of the regiment commander eastwards Krinkelt. It was somewhere here in the cold weather that Hackl was so sick from frostbite (Soldbuch wound code 33) that he was withdrawn from the frontline and arrived in a Wehrmacht hospital on the 4.2.1945 in Ibbenbüren, behind the frontlines. On the 16th of March 1945, Hackl now recovered after a short stint in hospital as well as 8 days with his family on leave he would arrive at his new unit, Alarm Bataillon 462 stationed in the town of Znaim (CZ) he was issued a K98 rifle on the 2nd of May 1945 likely to form some  sort of last stand resistance. Hackl must have survived the war, he is not listed on the lists of those killed.