For those who don't know, Ellwagen, Germany was a replacement Garrison and training area for the Waffen-SS.
As luck would have it I just met and became fast friends with a man who lives part of the year in Ellwangen, Germany. He is married to a woman who grew up there and knows many of the ex SS soldiers who settled down there after the war. On the outskirts of the town this man and his wife have an Inn which at one time was used as H.Q. for the local SS barracks which the SS pretty much abandoned after 1943 for fear of it being bombed by the allies (although it never was), billiting their troops and Cadre in the surrounding homes, etc. There were 60 men billited in this old Inn including the Kommandant. There were many items left intact within this Inn at the end of the war which this man now owns. One of the items was the Kommandant's wall locker. Inside this wall locker was a stack of Waffen-SS I.D. discs and local area maps which is where these items came from.
As luck would have it I just met and became fast friends with a man who lives part of the year in Ellwangen, Germany. He is married to a woman who grew up there and knows many of the ex SS soldiers who settled down there after the war. On the outskirts of the town this man and his wife have an Inn which at one time was used as H.Q. for the local SS barracks which the SS pretty much abandoned after 1943 for fear of it being bombed by the allies (although it never was), billiting their troops and Cadre in the surrounding homes, etc. There were 60 men billited in this old Inn including the Kommandant. There were many items left intact within this Inn at the end of the war which this man now owns. One of the items was the Kommandant's wall locker. Inside this wall locker was a stack of Waffen-SS I.D. discs and local area maps which is where these items came from.
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