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Thank you very much for the info. I am 99 % sure that he survived the war, as there is no mention of death in the wehrpas.

Since he served with the command of the Brandenburg Div (Stab), and corroborating with the fact that there was no training except for the K98, and no other specialised weapons, perhaps he was a driver that managed to pull some strings and get himself drafted in the Jagdverband ?

Perhaps the clue lies within the list of equipment from the Soldbuch ? This is where we should look to see what kind of specialised equipment was he issued.

Anyway, thanks for the fresh info.

All the best,

Alex

unfortunately, i cannot decipher everything handwritten there.
he seems to have been for some time in the "panzerjäger school".
the guy is from Thuringia.
i cannot decipher his last name, otherwise we might be able to check his whereabouts. i remember having seen a website with a serach engine for burial places, but the database is not complete and the Wehrmachtsauskunftsstelle in Berlin didn't digitalize anything, so they charge money for every search order which might take up to 6 months.

Check www.volksbund.de

Gen. Dénes

thanks. yes that's the one i meant. someone posted it on a Banat genealogy mailing list some time ago. however it's quite incomplete, as i couldn't find my uncle, for example.
to be reasonably sure you'd have to ask the Wehrmachtsauskunftsstelle.

Thank you. I read also the other additions from everybody. "Brandenburg" rang a bell in my brain too, but for other details I was not an "insider".

So he was a very lucky guy... At the end of the war the detachment led by Skorzeny was involved in very difficult actions, almost suicidal. At a certain moment, they were the only guys still fighting at east of Oder. When "Mistel" operation took place (the hybrids fighter-bomber), one bridge was left untouched to allow to Skorzeny and to his men to withdraw. That was a very fair act from the general commanding "Mistel", because personally he did not like Skorzeny.

This post has been edited by Florin on August 28, 2006 05:06 pm

It is very posible that the unit this guy served was suposed to inteprid actions on romanian soil, since i found recently a refence about skorzeny's unit Jagdverband.

A romanian captain, Ioan Toba - Hatmanu led a 100% romanian antipartisan unit on Iaila Mountains in Crimeea, and after august 1944 he and his remaining men joined Jagdverband, meeting personaly skorzeny.

Captain Toba-Hatmanu was trained by germans to be send back to Romania and fight the russian as guerilla and partisanjaeger unit.

Reference: "Zodia capului de mort" book, written based on captain Toba's war diary.

This post has been edited by 21 inf on June 03, 2007 05:40 am