Hello Gentlemen,
I am very pleased to have just acquired the soldbuch from Knights Cross winner Hauptmann Wolfgang Hasche. I would like to thank Mike Davis for his kind help in tracking this down for me.
Hasche won his RK for service durrning the Normandy and Falaise campaigns in 1944. He went on to serve in the Ardennes offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded again, receiving his Gold wound badge. The BundesArchives show him as MIA in February 1945 durring the chaos, but chances are he was captured. The grouping includes his dogtag, his hand inked black wound badge document for the Polish campaign of 1939 and an original photo of Hasche wearing the RK!
Here is where I am looking for help... Kai Winkler apparently sold Hasche's preliminary RK document, formal DKiG document, EK2, and other documents (EK1 missing?). I contacted Kai, but he does not have records as to who purchased the documents. I would love to track down the collector who now owns them to see if we could re-unite the grouping, or at least to get some nice copies of the documents.
Any help in finding these documents, or just finding more information about the final condition of Hasche at war's end, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Curtiss
nonameno@aol.com
I am very pleased to have just acquired the soldbuch from Knights Cross winner Hauptmann Wolfgang Hasche. I would like to thank Mike Davis for his kind help in tracking this down for me.
Hasche won his RK for service durrning the Normandy and Falaise campaigns in 1944. He went on to serve in the Ardennes offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded again, receiving his Gold wound badge. The BundesArchives show him as MIA in February 1945 durring the chaos, but chances are he was captured. The grouping includes his dogtag, his hand inked black wound badge document for the Polish campaign of 1939 and an original photo of Hasche wearing the RK!
Here is where I am looking for help... Kai Winkler apparently sold Hasche's preliminary RK document, formal DKiG document, EK2, and other documents (EK1 missing?). I contacted Kai, but he does not have records as to who purchased the documents. I would love to track down the collector who now owns them to see if we could re-unite the grouping, or at least to get some nice copies of the documents.
Any help in finding these documents, or just finding more information about the final condition of Hasche at war's end, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Curtiss
nonameno@aol.com
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