116th Panzer Traditions Badge

[naxos]

(staff would wear them while further training the new recruits)
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Not sure I understand what you are saying.

[NickG]

Not sure I understand what you are saying.

Cadre (staff) of such Ersatz und Ausbildungs units were not recruits but experienced combat leaders who could have been posted
at such an Ergänzungs-Einheit (Operational training Unit like the "Windhunden EuA") to prep the new 116 members for unit orientation and front line service preparedness.
Such staff personnel would have already earned such a badge while being released from the front (perhaps healing from a wound)
to help train replacements for the unit. That's what I am trying to say.

[naxos]

Those staff members could have earned such a badge already and were released from the front (perhaps healing from would) to help train replacements for the unit. That's what I am trying to say.

Yes

[NickG]

Yes

Genau!
Los geht's Windhunden, kämpfen und siegen!" (Schnell wie Windhunde!)

[naxos]

plural is Windhunde

[NickG]

plural is Windhunde

Genau! Bereits geändert. (I had already fixed it)

Pz.Div 116 memorial!
Hürtgenwald - Ehrenfriedhof Vossenack (note US and German flags)

[Gran Sasso]

Genau! Bereits geändert. (I had already fixed it)

No you havent ;-)

That's easy! Windhunden Division!

Genau!
Los geht's Windhunden, kämpfen und siegen!" (Schnell wie Windhunde!)

[Willi Z.]

Great badge and photos. I visited that cemetery a few years ago while touring the Hürtgenwald.

[Brig]

This has certainly evolved into an interesting thread

Now I just need to find a nice pair of wrapper tabs to display with it

[J.von Canon]

101st.Abn. & Windhunden

Am pretty sure these guys (116) tangled with the 101st. Abn. during the Bastogne fight.

[Brig]

I know the unit was at Normandy

[clothilde62]

what do you about this, please?

[RJKG]

Interestingly a Bundeswehr unit, I can't recall which one, inherited this tradition badge post-war, and was certainly still using it as late as 1996, but has since been forced to relinquish it, and in it's place adopt a stylised red rose head.
Another recent attempt to eradicate any continuity of tradition between the Bundeswehr and Wehrmacht.