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Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 7:22 am
by valleyboy
You two reprobates seem to know a lot about WW2 so I thought I'd ask for some help. Got a text out of the blue today from a GP in the area who chatted to one of my colleagues who told them I had an interest in WW2. Its a kiwi guy doing some research into his Grandfather who was in the SS, then the Brandenburger regiment and was killed in Slovakia in Jan 1945. He is uncertain which unit he belonged to in 1944 leading up to his death. He asks if I have any clever tips on where he could look at or if I had an SS staff list
Any suggestions as to where I could tell him to look?
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 9:34 am
by Etranger
Brandenbergers were army rather than SS, but I guess it was possible to transfer between the two. Looking for SS personal records might be problematic as often quite significant efforts were made to hide membership of that organisation, although if the chap was dead, possibly no one would have bothered.
I'd start with the addresses on the link
https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Mil ... -Addresses I'm not sure how up to date the links are.
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 10:20 am
by RMD
Wot 'e said. SS veterans can be notoriously difficult to research. For example, after his death, a good friend's uncle was revealed to have been an SS PzIV battalion commander with II SS Pz Corps in Normandy. However, ODESSA successfully changed his identity after the war and while we've narrowed his identity down to a handful of likely candidates, we can't precisely identify him.
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 10:23 am
by RMD
Of course it made our Normandy tours enormously more entertaining, as he was my 2IC and French cunning-linguist... The locals would invariably ask if our relatives had served in the Normandy Campaign. "'Oh oui...' he would reply..."
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 7:01 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
valleyboy wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 7:22 am
He asks if I have.....an SS staff list.
What does he know about you that we don't......?
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 8:06 pm
by Buff Orpington
BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 7:01 pm
valleyboy wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 7:22 am
He asks if I have.....an SS staff list.
What does he know about you that we don't......?
VB used to be a dentist
Re: Calling ET and RMD
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:21 am
by grizzlymc
No wonder he's hiding in NZ.