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    Originally posted by Tom B View Post
    Hello Sepp !! These are super ! Thanks !! I do believe I was in attendence at this OdR reunion and also the same as the Otto Kumm photo. I sat at a table just next to them with Bodo Spranz & Hinrich Ahrens. I think it was one in the early 80's ? Not sure ? Thanks for posting these !! Tom
    I really don't know the date of those photos, since they come from a Russian website . I'm sure that Mark C. Yerger knows the exact year. Probably the photos are his

    Regards,
    Sepp.

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      Another of Heinz Maher and his peculiar beard
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        Generale di Brigata Gerardo Zaccardo (1899 - 1996), Italian commander of an Alpini regiment on the Eastern Front. He took part in the successful Battle of Nikolayevka, where the Italian 8th Army's Alpini Corps hold four Soviet Armies of the Voronezh Front.

        Regards,
        Sepp.
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          Originally posted by Sepp45 View Post
          I really don't know the date of those photos, since they come from a Russian website . I'm sure that Mark C. Yerger knows the exact year. Probably the photos are his

          Regards,
          Sepp.
          Those Russian guys have also collected some interesting shots , there is one of Herbert Fries that i have not seen before !!

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            German veteran who fought in both World Wars, in a postman's uniform. This photo was taken in 1957 with his set of medals.
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              Sergeant Hermann Völck

              He entered the priesthood after the war. Although you can't see it clearly, for the interview he is wearing a stick-pin with medals and badges on his clericals. He was a fallschirmjäger on Kreta.



              Screen grab from BBC's Timewatch-Fallschirmjaeger (2001).

              --Guy

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                And apparently (Google search) he was a Leutnant at Monte Cassino. Here's a photo of Monsignore Völck standing next to a Fallschirm-Ritterkreuztraeger:



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                Another Msgr Völck site: http://www.avalon-world.de/rk_augsbu...monsognore.htm

                We were delighted that Monsignor Völk had agreed to tell us his personal memories of that fateful battles from January to May of 1944 this evening on 19.3.2004.

                Monsignor Völk participated as a paratrooper officer during the war on many fronts, including the invasion of Crete in 1941. But it is also his job as a priest that makes him a very special witnesses of the battle for the mountain monastery of Monte Cassino, because unfortunately, today much is unknown what outstanding historical and cultural significance of this particular monastery for the
                Development of Western Christianity has taken over many centuries. Was tragic, Monte Cassino was destroyed by a bomb attack finally in the course of the fighting and at the same time should be at a place where so many young soldiers on both sides lost their lives.

                RK Augsburg handed over to the 85 year-old Monsignor Völk a donation of 168,05 €. for a monument in honor of the group of paratroopers in Crete.

                Some district associations of the War Graves organize trips to Italy or to Monte Cassino in April / May / June 2004

                Also, the parachutist RK Augsburg plans to commemorate the fallen there in May this year.
                --Guy

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                  Originally posted by GHP View Post
                  And apparently (Google search) he was a Leutnant at Monte Cassino. Here's a photo of Monsignore Völck standing next to a Fallschirm-Ritterkreuztraeger:



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                  Another Msgr Völck site: http://www.avalon-world.de/rk_augsbu...monsognore.htm

                  --Guy
                  Hello Guy ! The RKT is Herbert Fries

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                    Originally posted by Tom B View Post
                    Hello Guy ! The RKT is Herbert Fries
                    Thanks Tom!!

                    Is there any information on Msgr. Voelck? Just wondering what awards he had. Looks like at least EKII, Jump Badge, and (I'd imagine) a Kreta cuff title.

                    Cheers,
                    --Guy

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                      Originally posted by GHP View Post
                      Thanks Tom!!

                      Is there any information on Msgr. Voelck? Just wondering what awards he had. Looks like at least EKII, Jump Badge, and (I'd imagine) a Kreta cuff title.

                      Cheers,
                      --Guy
                      I can't find anything on Voelck. Until you posted these photo's I had never heard of him ! When my old dear friend Rolf Neumann passed away, my contact with the Para Vet's organization dried up. Sorry. Tom

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                        Thanks Tom.
                        ...my old dear friend Rolf Neumann passed away...
                        "Sergeant Death" continues to march ...... I just hope he doesn't start"double timing" soon!

                        --Guy

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                          Anybody knows who's the RKT during Alfons Rebane's funeral in 1976?

                          I'm positive it's not Harald Nugiseks.
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                            Hard to tell, but could it be Bernhard Langhorst who died in 1996?



                            According to the above cited link, he was Kommandeur SS-Freiw.PzJägAbt 20 (estn. Nr.1).

                            --Guy

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                              Originally posted by Sepp45 View Post
                              Anybody knows who's the RKT during Alfons Rebane's funeral in 1976?

                              I'm positive it's not Harald Nugiseks.
                              Looking at the picture, although fuzz, I believe that is Herr Nugiseks!

                              Hope this helps!
                              Lev

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                                Originally posted by Death-Ace View Post
                                Looking at the picture, although fuzz, I believe that is Herr Nugiseks!

                                Hope this helps!
                                Lev
                                I don't think so Lev, because Nugiseks wore his uniform during the ceremony. Here's a pic.

                                Thanks anyway
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