Soldbuch help

[peter u]

Thank Gerdan,
Let see what extra information the fieldpoststamp brings about his unit in May 1940.
Is there a verwundenten abz written in the sb or is that page missing?

Cheers,
Peter

[PZIV]

Zooming in I believe it says: 11150 0

Can this be right?

He sends me an email saying this:

This person in Germany read this scans too and said that he"got wounded in Western Flanders weeks before he went to hospital on June 1st 1940, border with Belgium and France, then was in hospital for long time until December 1943, then was sent to the pigeon unit in 1944, since that's the only thing he still could do.
Another man said he was in hospital for no reason for 3 years, so he thought that he was in some 'secret' mission for undercover for SS in hospitals, maybe trying to find out who was not loyal to Hitler in hospital, among the SS patients....the only way we can find out is if we get his army records from Koblenz, Germany.

[Gerdan]

He was on special leave from 8 - 19 May 1943 because of an extreme illness of his father (Sonderurlaub wegen schwerer Erkrankung des Vaters).

From 11 July - 9 Aug 43 he was also on special leave,

the reason: "Gefährdung der eigenen Existenz" - endangerin of his own (economic) existence.

May be his father died. We can see on page 5 that his father later was marked as dead.

Gerdan

[Gerdan]

He was sent to the SS - Lazarett Hohenlychen the 28 July 1941.

Hohenlychen (try it with google!) was one of the most famous SS - Lazarett.

The Chief doctor was the famous Prof. Dr. Karl Gebhardt.

After the war some of the doctoes have been accuse because they made special experiments on human beeings.

In Hohenlychen there was also a meeeting with a delegation of the International Red Cross and high ranking Germans during the period of the end of WWII.
May be our guy was involved with such secret things

Gerdan

[PZIV]

Hmm, this is all very interesting. So this guy could have either A) gotten wounded and somehow stayed in the hospital for a long time with some injury or B) could he have been a spy seeing who was loyal to the Fuhrer and not? This could be a very interesting historical soldbuch right here!