Wehrpass: rare award page

[albertofl]

Hi guys,
Anyone can help me with these entries?
IAB awarded...then crossed line and again awarded in 1941?
Thanks!

[Angel Farré]

Mistake by the clerk and them reused.

Show us more from this 72 I.D. group

Angel

[albertofl]

Here you have Angel.
A fighter in the Balcans probably won the EK2 fighting Metaxas Line.

[albertofl]

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[Angel Farré]

KIA earlier into Barbarossa.

Thanks

Angel

[albertofl]

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[Brian R]

Great EK award related to the campaign in Greece!

[Gerdan]

His Volksbund entry:

Nachname: Wagner
Vorname: Erwin
Dienstgrad: Gefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 28.03.1921
Geburtsort: Gambach
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 25.07.1941
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Koschnitza

His grave should be here but not yet found: Tiraspol - Moldawien

Gerdan

[Archi]

Hello !

Interesting Wehrpass of a unit I am also interested in .

These award entries regarding the Sturmabzeichen are really strange,
and it took me a long while, until I (perhaps) understood what Angel was saying:
- Inf.-Sturmabzeichen was entered on 16.8.40. (not signed)
- Entry was crossed out on 21.11.40 but the "Streichung bescheinigt" entry
(all written in blue ink) also was never signed !
- then on 29.8.41 (written with black ink) the entry dated 21.11.40 was crossed out
(with same black ink).

So does "the Streichung of the Streichung" just reinstate the former status
(= Inf.Sturmabz. awarded on the 16.8.40) ?!) or was it entered when he was awarded
the Inf.Sturmabz. (posthum) in 1941 ?!

A general question : I can well imagine that German bureaucracy worked that way.
What I don't understand :
The second half of 1940 was relatively quiet. The soldier always stayed in the same company,
from February 1940 to the end. How could all of this confusion have happened ?!

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Regarding the soldier and his EK 2 award :
I am also convinced, that he was awarded the EK 2 for the actions against the Metaxas fortifications.
From a report on those days by General Mattenklott, it is clear that the 72. Inf. Div. was very proud
of its actions there. IR 124 had the task to take the Malianga fortified positions, which was
considered one of the strongest fortified positions of the Metaxas line. Rgt. 124 was able to take
half of the bunkers and was close to a breakthrough, when the fighting ceased on 10.4.

On the day he was KIA, 25.7.1941, Inf.Rgt. 124 was crossing the river Dnjestr, Northeast of Kishinew.
While the first wave of IR 105 and 124 could cross almost unopposed at 4:00 a.m. in the morning,
from 6:00 a.m. onward, both bridgeheads came under extremely heavy fire by arty, MGs and air attacks
and were held up by wire entanglements and antitank ditches.
All of this action must have happened in the area between todays Dubasari and Grigoriopol, ~30km NE
of Chisinau (Kishinev).

Best regards,

Archi

[albertofl]

Thanks for all that great info Archi.