44th Infantry Div. SB

[SJP]

I recently acquired the personal Documents from the Kriegspfarrer of the

Division Karl Geist. He was captured at Stalingrad and returned from captivity in

1950. All comments welcome. Cheers Steve

[mufasa]

really greatbsoldbuch, of a chaplain, of one division very interesting, prisoner to Stalingrad and, also this very rare, survived to bis imprisonment ....

Congrats!
Oriano

[Ironcrown]

Lucky to have survived, a strong man for sure. I don't think it was easy for a german priest to be prisoner of the russian comunists!

[JUNGCO]

Great Soldbuch. I've always liked the clergy papers. Thanks for showing this.
Jeff

[M3A1Mats]

Lovely piece! Never saw one that returned from captivity,
Thanks for sharing,

Mats

[Ironcrown]

Not rare at all to see ex-POW's documents. I have a bunch from soldiers returned from american, british o french captivity. Much more rare to see a Soldbuch belonged to a prisoner from Stalingrad. Most of them starved or died from diseases. You had to be a strong man with god by your side to survive

[mufasa]

Interesting a CZ27 pistol datet 21th november 1942.....

the 44 HUD Division, Austrian and with many Catholics, is a division that has had several publications of veterans, surely there should be somewhere more news of this chaplain ...

[Pie]

Hello,
very nice SB!
Perhaps the Pistol issued due the situation in the "Kessel"?
As Mufasa stated, you will probably find more information in the 44. HuD publication. I will have a look in the newspaper "Alte Kameraden" I have for this Kriegspfarrer.

Greetings from Italy
Pietro

[M3A1Mats]

I have "Die 44. Infanterie Division" by Anton Schimak, Karl Lamprecht, Friedrich Dettmer and het is named on page 371 in the list of Divisionspfarrer.

Kath.Kr.Pf. Geist 1.11.1941 - 30.1.1943 Kriegsgefangenschaft Stalingrad

Nothing you don't know yet but there might be more mentioned in the book. It pops-up every now and then on ebay.de

Mats

[mufasa]

I also try to search in the reducist book " Stalingrad - Ein Rückblick nach 60 Jahren: 44. Infanterie Division "Hoch- und Deutschmeister" but no news...
Oriano

[SJP]

Thanks to all the comments. I'll post the rest of the group in the next few days.
I have more information about him also
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Cheers Steve