The Uscha. in the portrait, with the Infantry Assault Badge, Wound Badge, and Winter 41-42 Ribbon is Nordschleswiger Volksdeutscher (from the German minority in southern Denmark) Christian "Christen" Dall.
Dall served in Regiment Nordland, I believe, before attending Bad Tölz and becoming an Ustuf. He then served in Regiment Norge, becoming an Infantry Gun specialist, and being the acting commander of 13./Norge.
Dall's saddest claim to fame is that at the end of the war, while with the Nibelungen Division, he was the aid to Knight's Cross winner Markus Faulhaber. Faulhaber, who had been wounded in the arm. American forces asked Dall and Faulhaber to drive around the nearby mountains and inform German stragglers that the war was over. Dall was driving, I believe, when the car went off the road and into the Inn River. Dall survived, but Faulhaber, with his bad arm, drowned.
Dall served in Regiment Nordland, I believe, before attending Bad Tölz and becoming an Ustuf. He then served in Regiment Norge, becoming an Infantry Gun specialist, and being the acting commander of 13./Norge.
Dall's saddest claim to fame is that at the end of the war, while with the Nibelungen Division, he was the aid to Knight's Cross winner Markus Faulhaber. Faulhaber, who had been wounded in the arm. American forces asked Dall and Faulhaber to drive around the nearby mountains and inform German stragglers that the war was over. Dall was driving, I believe, when the car went off the road and into the Inn River. Dall survived, but Faulhaber, with his bad arm, drowned.
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