Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

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Albert Stenwedel 1984.......
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Kausch & Willi Fey 84......
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Cosmas Wolf..ODR Treffen 1985......
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Hartmann 94
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Gustav-Peter Reber 1985.....
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[Sepp45]

Good photos Nigel

The first one (Swords Holder) is Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny.

[Nigel N]

Thanks Sepp!!
Lot of SS there, and a few 2nd pattern RK's too!!!!!
-Nigel

[Tom B]

Really super group of photos !!! Tom

[Seaburn]

Just for your info: He was an ass to everybody, and was not well liked by many of his fellow RKT's (as was told to me by one of them)

With all due respect to you ‘Tom B’, I have read other accounts from people, some even posted here on this forum who also met him and found him to be helpful and solicitous, but I don’t doubt that your meeting left a bad taste in your mouth.

I can’t get a real sense of his character, he seemed to be something different to everyone. His interrogations are fascinating and all follow a pattern, with many noting his physical beauty (General Foster of Canada describing him as ‘unbelievably handsome, he should have been a movie star’-‘Meeting of Generals, T. Foster’) or the Canadian one that stated (perhaps a bit tongue in cheek) that he was ‘the perfect example of Aryan youth as laid down in the pages of Mein Kampf’. His many awards were also noted and variously described as ‘decorated like a Christmas tree’, ‘chest littered with decorations’ ‘wearing every decoration it was possible to bestow’, and finally his intransigence and unbending loyalty to Hitler and the ideology of N.S. One British intel man recorded hat he was “one of the worst type of SS offr, arrogant, fanatical, Nazi….willing to fight to the death for his own 'honour' and that of the SS”'

From his own side he appeared to garner personal loyalty from his men, His adjutant Georg Isecke was fiercely loyal to him in his own interrogation and his driver in Normandy also said that he would have followed him anywhere ‘because he cared for each and every one of his men’, he even forgave him for sending him back on hair raising journey to a recently abandoned HQ to retrieve an important item….which turned out to be a box of cigars!

Wünsche’s vociferous defence of AH seemed to be the reason he served four years in captivity as the Allies never found any evidence against him for war crimes, they recorded in his interrogation about Wormhoudt that “it is noteworthy, that in the extensive files, kept in this office on the infamous deeds of the 1st and 12th SS Panzer divisions, his name does not occur once in connection with any atrocity” (WO208/3662) . This clean ‘bill of health’ has been re-quoted by many to claim he was untarnished but there is evidence, never published, that he was at the scene of a war crime on the E.F., one carried out under the orders of Kurt Meyer when their two units were attached to each other in Feb ’43. He was asked about this village in his interrogation but he denied he knew it (even though the Divisional records of the LSAH have subsequently placed him there) but he was never pushed on it as the British had no intel of his involvement due to his name never being mentioned by those POWs who talked about it.

He is someone I’d like to find out more about, if anyone has other unpublished insights, I’d be grateful if you would PM me.

[Tom B]

With all due respect to you ‘Tom B’, I have read other accounts from people, some even posted here on this forum who also met him and found him to be helpful and solicitous, but I don’t doubt that your meeting left a bad taste in your mouth.

I can’t get a real sense of his character, he seemed to be something different to everyone. His interrogations are fascinating and all follow a pattern, with many noting his physical beauty (General Foster of Canada describing him as ‘unbelievably handsome, he should have been a movie star’-‘Meeting of Generals, T. Foster’) or the Canadian one that stated (perhaps a bit tongue in cheek) that he was ‘the perfect example of Aryan youth as laid down in the pages of Mein Kampf’. His many awards were also noted and variously described as ‘decorated like a Christmas tree’, ‘chest littered with decorations’ ‘wearing every decoration it was possible to bestow’, and finally his intransigence and unbending loyalty to Hitler and the ideology of N.S. One British intel man recorded hat he was “one of the worst type of SS offr, arrogant, fanatical, Nazi….willing to fight to the death for his own 'honour' and that of the SS”'

From his own side he appeared to garner personal loyalty from his men, His adjutant Georg Isecke was fiercely loyal to him in his own interrogation and his driver in Normandy also said that he would have followed him anywhere ‘because he cared for each and every one of his men’, he even forgave him for sending him back on hair raising journey to a recently abandoned HQ to retrieve an important item….which turned out to be a box of cigars!

Wünsche’s vociferous defence of AH seemed to be the reason he served four years in captivity as the Allies never found any evidence against him for war crimes, they recorded in his interrogation about Wormhoudt that “it is noteworthy, that in the extensive files, kept in this office on the infamous deeds of the 1st and 12th SS Panzer divisions, his name does not occur once in connection with any atrocity” (WO208/3662) . This clean ‘bill of health’ has been re-quoted by many to claim he was untarnished but there is evidence, never published, that he was at the scene of a war crime on the E.F., one carried out under the orders of Kurt Meyer when their two units were attached to each other in Feb ’43. He was asked about this village in his interrogation but he denied he knew it (even though the Divisional records of the LSAH have subsequently placed him there) but he was never pushed on it as the British had no intel of his involvement due to his name never being mentioned by those POWs who talked about it.

He is someone I’d like to find out more about, if anyone has other unpublished insights, I’d be grateful if you would PM me.

I guess it all depends on how big of a AH fan any one person would have been. He was a fanatical follower I do know that. Matters not anyway, they are all dead now and the past is the past.

[Mustangstje]

A super set of RKT photo's just up for sale on the bay......

Hi Nigel,
Can you send me a link to these listings or are you interested in them?

Regards,
Nick

[GHP]

What a great grouping of photos, Nigel! Thanks for posting them.

--Guy

[Sepp45]

Oberstleutnant Hermann Schütz

[Sepp45]

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[Tom B]

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Hi Sepp ! This one I'm working on. I know I met him, but he was much older than this photo ! I'll get back to you ! Tom