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Hello Franz - welcome to the Forum. I'm sure there are plenty of members who would like to see your images.

Certainly sounds interesting. You should place an ad in the Trade section. In C you mention it is in a more simple style - do you mean it doesn't contain the same amount of information as in Keilig's book or just the presentation of the information is different? Is it possible to provide a screen shot of a page from each so people can see a sample from them?

Nice example. That belongs to Hauptmann Hanns Baier who as a Major commanded Fallsch. Fla MG-Btl at Crete in 1941.

I'd say that it does indeed belong to Kurt von Pannwitz, commander of Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur E (v) 203/III at the wars end.

Both signatures belong to Carl-Heinrich. Otto never commander II Armeekorps and by the date on your citation, Otto was in the Führer-Reserve/retired.

Born: 27th Jan 1892 Died: 22nd Jul 1944 - KIA at Brest-Litovsk Highest rank reached: Generalleutnant Chef Gen.St stellv. X Armeekorps Kdr 8 Schtz.Brig 8 Pz.Division Kdr 11 Pz. Division Kdr 9 Pz. Division Führer 334 Infanterie Division Kdr 337 Infanterue Division Oberfeldkommandantur 399 Kommandant Brest -Litovsk RK - 8th April 1943 DKiG - 4th Feb 1943

It can have all the anti-radar stealth it wants but it won't stop it being spotted visually by patrol aircraft.

Major Hans Michaelis Born: 10th September 1910 Died: 26th May 2000 Highest rank reached: Oberst Infanterie Rgt 37 Chef 11./Infanterie Rgt 184 Kdr II/Infanterie Rgt 184 Führer Grenadier Rgt 184 Kdr Jäger Rgt 52 (L) RK - 28th Sept 1943 DKiG - 28th Feb 1942 Image: Black Wound Badge citation

Oberstleutnant Deert Jacob Reeder. Born: 22nd August 1900 Died: 7th July 1944 near Minsk II/Infanterie Regiment 254 Kdr II/Grenadier Rgt 254 Kdr Grenadier Rgt 254 RK - 30th Nov 1943 DKiG - 19th Dec 1941 Ehrenblattspange - 25th May 1942 Image: Ost Medal citation

I think that the heads of the 3 services are just as much to blame as the politicians. The British Armed Forces are by far and away too top heavy in terms of the numbers of senior officers and yet to save money the military powers that be never suggest cutting the numbers of Admirals, Generals & Air Marschals to a more relaistic level for what the Britsh Armed Forces have become. They would rather see the numers of front line staff, ships and regiments cut before they even contemplate suggesting the unthinkable (to them.) I believe that the Government even suggested that a way to save some of the titles was to downsize from Regiment to Battalion (or reduce the manning levels of battalions) but the head of the Army refused. I don't know the numbers money wise but I think you could slash those senior officers by 50% and make a huge saving without affecting the running of the Armed Forces, by using senior Captains/Colonels etc to take up those roles.

Fritz Albrecht was indeed a commander of Pz.Art.Rgt GD. In April 1942 it was Jauer, followed by Oberst Reinke and Albrecht took over from him. I don't have many details for Reinke except a date of 1st December 1942 and it is possible he was transferred out on this date. I have seen a citation with Röckner's signature on it dated for the 2nd July 1944 and in the position of the Rgt Commander. It is possible that Röckner was just a Rgt-Führer rather then Kommandeur but as mentioned, I have yet to get that far in my research so can't confirm. And the same for Hauptmann Plange, on a citation dated for 17th July 1944 in the position of Nachr.Abt Kommandeur. The names & citations appear in either (or both in the case of names) Scott Pritchett's 3 GD volumes and Helmuth Spaeter's 3 Volume GD History. As for the other question, I mentioned that the Third Reich Document section was where such things were posted but if you meant actual different forums then the only ones I can think of are http://www.forum-der...ht.de/index.php and http://forum.axishistory.com/

Thanks for the attempt at the name. In my research into the GD officer database I am only up to the end of 1943/early 1944 so far (and it is far from complete) so as of this moment I don't know who held those positions in 1945. I know that by July 1944 the commander of the Pz.Art.Rgt GD was Major Röckner who was an Oberstleutnant by December 1944. Again, in July 1944 the commander of the Nachr.Abt was Hauptmann Plange. With regrads to the section for personel research etc then it is usually the Third Reich Documentation section. The only mention of the 1944 DAL with reference to Oberleutnante that I've been able to find is in the thread as the DAL 1.5.43. You could try contacting Glenn J as he is the owner of the DAL May 1944.

7) 13./Infanterie Rgt GD 1 (Pz.Gren.Rgt GD) April to at least Oct 1942

6) Ersatz Abt Schnelle Truppen Ersatz Brigade (mot.) Großdeutschland Nov 1942 - Seemingly a common signature and always seems to be associated with this unit but I have so far failed to identify it.

5) Stab/Pz.Rgt GD Aug 1943 - Regimental Adjutant

4) 13./Infanterie Rgt Großdeutschland 1 (Pz.Gren.Rgt GD) Sept 1942

3) 13./Infanterie Rgt GD Sept 1939 to at least Jan 1940 - as an early Kompanie Kdr (with rank of Hauptmann) I thought this one would of been mentioned somewhere but so far I have drawn a blank.

2) 3./Pz.Gren.Rgt GD Dec 1944

OK, some more and all these are Großdeutschland related and would be of great help both for additions to this database and also in my efforts to compile a database of officers who served with GD... 1) 12./Pz.Gren.Rgt GD Sept 1944 - Believe it says Freiherr von Wesenhausen but confirmation &/or additional details appreciated.

Welcome to GMIC and any and all help you can provide the members will always be much appreciated. Thanks for the names. Just so I am on the right track: Regiment-Führer of Grenadier Rgt 184 in late 1943 = Hans Michaelis (RK & DKiG) (Ost Medal) Gren.Rgt 254 of 110 ID and dated for early 1944 = Deert Reeder (RK, DKiG & Ehrenblattspange) (Ost Medal) Art.Rgt Stab (mot.) zbV 627. Dated for late 1943 = Weissenbruch

Nice additional images. They could well be a unit photographers images, bought by a soldier and then compiled into a photo album sometime after the war when some of the details might of been a little hazy due to the mists of time. The post-war memorial photos show (I believe) that the album at least belongs to a particular soldier or that it was compiled for a veterens organisation. It is the same with alot of photo albums for sailors who served on the big ships. It is very common to see the same photos appear in numerous KM albums, especially those related to Scharnhorst & Gneisenau with some of them being stills taken from the official newsreel films. Doesn't detract from them though.

It's not just the spelling but the unit designation. 4.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenader-Brigade but the document has the incorrect designation of 4.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenader-Division.

Firstly, 'Nederland' is spelt incorrectly on the front. Secondly the Nederland division was established in February 1945. In October 1943 4.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenader-Brigade was established when the Nederland Legion was upgraded, so for the date shown on the paper the unit designation is totally wrong. Between 4.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenader-Brigade and 23 SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Nederland' there was SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade 'Nederland' so all in all I have my doubts. And I have my doubts about the Hitler signature as well.

I can imagine it isn't an easy album to obtain - decent SS ones rarely are especially those for the ones that fought in a largely unknown theatre. Don't worry about hijacking the thread, feel free to post whatever examples you wish.

Generalleutnant Walther Risse. Born: 13th Dec 1892 Died: 21st Jun 1965 Kommandeur II.Ersatz-Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 37 Kommandeur Infanterie-Regiment 474 Kommandeur 225.Infanterie-Division RK - 22nd Sep 1941 / EL - 18th Jan 1945 DKiG - 30th Sep 1944 Image: EK II Citation