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Donnerstag, 1. März 2018

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Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 (Norrey-en-Bessin)

Armed with an MG42 general-purpose machine gun, the exhausted SS-Panzergrenadiers of SS-Hauptscharführer Wilhelm Boigk´s 3rd platoon grimly carry on the battle.

Boigk himself was killed in action on July 4 1944. These photographs are from a set by SS-Kriegsberichter Wilfried Woscidlo taken at Rots on June 9 1944. The SS troopers are preparing for a counterattack with the Panthers of 3.Panzerkompanie/SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 of the 12.SS-Panzer-Divison Hitlerjugend.

SS-Hauptscharführer Boigk was buried at the Soldatenfriedhöf Reyes-Bazenville.

SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Waldmüller

SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Waldmüller (September 13 1912 – September 8 1944), commander 1st Battalion/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 of 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend. Waldmüller held the right flank position of the Hitlerjugend Division for weeks against the hardest attacks, under constant naval artillery. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross on August 27 1944 for his unit’s defensive achievements during the fierce battles around Caen in Normandy. During the German retreat through Belgium Waldmüller was lured into an ambush by communist partisans near Basse-Bodeux between Werbomont and Stavelot on September 8 1944. When Waldmüller´s mutilated body was recovered by his troops it was slashed open, the genitals were cut off and his body was dumped into a drainage pipe. He had fought bravely for five years and was known for his adventurous and daring acts. Hans Waldmüller – along with SS-Untersturmführer Karl Marquardt who was murdered by headshot in the same incident – rests at the German military cemetery at Düren-Rölsdorf near Aachen in Germany. Units: SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Leibstandarte SS and 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend. Awards among others: Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, German Cross in Gold and Wound Badge in Silver. Image: Hans Waldmüller to the very right wearing Italian camouflage pattern, directs men to their stations in Normandy June 1944 (at left is SS-Kriegsberichter Pahl).

Waffen-SS - Ludwig Spindler

SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Spindler (1910 – 1944) served in SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Das Reich and in 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen. For his exemplary leadership during the rescue of encircled German troops in the Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket (Hube's Pocket) in the Soviet Union and for his heroic actions in Normandy, Spindler was decorated with the German Cross in Gold. At Operation Market Garden, Spindler formed a defensive perimeter around Arnhem before forcing the British to withdraw, for this achievement Spindler received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Spindler was killed during the Battle of the Bulge when Allied aircraft attacked his car. Ludwig Spindler was buried at the Altenkirchen War Cemetery in Westerwald.

Waffen-SS Günther

Alfred Günther (April 25 1917 – June 15 1944) from Magdeburg after receiving his Knight's Cross in June 1943, he was later promoted SS-Untersturmführer. Günther, commanded 3.Kompanie/1.SS-Sturmgeschütz Abteilung (Assault Gun Battalion)/1.SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS and became the first member of the unit to be awarded the Knight's Cross. He was later transferred to Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 (SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101) and commanded a Tiger Panzer in 3.Zug/3.Kompanie. He was killed in Évrecy, Normandy when his Tiger was hit by an aircraft bomb on June 15 1944. Alfred Günthers grave is in War Graves cemetery at La Cambe: Block 30 Row 8 grave 303. Image: Alfred Günther with rank as an SS-Hauptscharführer.

Photo: SS-Kriegsberichter Johan King