PHOTOGRAPHS
Studio portrait taken during basic training in Lüneburg, Germany in 1939, shortly after conscription into the German Army.
Swearing the Wehrmacht loyalty oath in Lüneburg on September 2, 1939, the day after Germany’s invasion of Poland.
Visiting my family in Püggen early in 1940.
Above: Pushing for a win in Verviers, Belgium, at the end of the 154th Regiment’s 400-meter race in summer 1940.
Left: Practicing with a radio as part of my training with the communications platoon during fall 1939.
Below: A crater made by a shell from the Russian battleship Red October.
Our company’s march through the Baltic region toward Leningrad in the summer of 1941. I am pictured to the left rear of our company commander, Oberleutnant Von Kempski.
Below, left: A photograph from Uritsk used on the front page of a German-language newspaper in Reval, Latvia, dated April 2, 1942. The caption reads, “This is the German soldier who you will find in the trenches: young, agile, and sure of victory.”
Below, right: Another photo taken in the spring of 1942.
Left, and with detail above: The “Old Sacks” bunker at Uritsk that I shared with my close comrades Willi Schütte and Willi Sauke.
A crossroads in the late fall of 1941 with a sign pointing to Petersburg (Leningrad).
Below, left: Skiing between the front and my bunker in the rear at Uritsk during the winter of 1941–42. Below, right: Taken at Uritsk after my promotion to Obergefreiter (corporal) and my receipt of the Iron Cross Second Class.
Standing between two comrades outside of our bunker at Oranienbaum in the summer of 1942.
Below: My comrades and I celebrate Christmas 1942 in our bunker near Demyansk.
A studio shot taken while on leave from the East in 1942.
Below: Dressed in a padded winter uniform, I am at the entrance to a bunker near Demyansk, Russia, early in 1943.
A respite from the fighting as we find a piano and also discover the hidden talents of some of our comrades.
Anneliese’s nursing identification card, dated May 1, 1943.
Below: Sitting on a fortification behind a 105-millimeter mortar in the Lake Ladoga area during the summer of 1944.
On leave in Germany during the spring of 1943, my future wife Anneliese and I relax together on a park bench.
Little did I suspect that her home city of Hamburg would be devastated months later, putting her in as much danger as a frontline soldier.
Above: Operating as a forward observer in 1942, I am carryig my MP-40 submachine gun and wearing a pair of binoculars.
Right: Sitting along the shore of Lake Ilmen outside of Novgorod in the fall of 1942.
Striking a rather proud pose after receiving the Iron Cross First Class.
Above: A 150-millimeter howitzer passes through a town.
Left: A comrade at Demyansk displays his scoped rifle during the winter of 1942–43.
A 75-millimeter howitzer in action in the Ladoga area during 1943.
A mortar platoon of my heavy weapons company. The so-called “spit and polish” of the Wehrmacht was not always evident on the frontline.
One of my heavy weapons company’s 75-millimeter light infantry howitzers in the Lake Ladoga area during the summer of 1943.
Our company on the move sometime during 1943.
Standing next to my bunker near Narva, Estonia in 1944 as a newlyminted Leutnant.
Below: Petting my horse Thea during a peaceful moment in the Düna region of Lativa in the late summer of 1944.
Below: Awarding decorations to several men in my company during our retreat through Latvia in 1944.
A studio portrait taken while on leave in early 1944.
Below: One of our 150-millimeter howitzers during the retreat through the Baltic region.
Below: With several men at Narva, Estonia in May 1944, just after becoming company commander following my return to the Eastern Front.
Getting a haircut in the field. This was slightly less painful than the dental work, performed under similar circumstances.
One of the more important tasks for a soldier in the East: dealing with the ubiquitous lice.
Just after my marriage to Anneliese at a ceremony in Hamburg on December 22, 1945.
A studio portrait of Anneliese and I from 1946. Though it was a difficult year for all of Germany, we managed to maintain our hopes for a better future.
Above: Outside our home in Cleveland, Ohio in 1967, Anneliese and I are pictured with our oldest son, Harold, our daughter, Marion, and our youngest son, Ralph.
Right: Anneliese and I at a northern Ohio Oktoberfest in 1980.
Below: At the Aberdeen Proving Ground museum in Maryland in 2003, I am standing behind one of our 75-millimeter pieces.
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REFERENCES
1
Federal Textbook on Citizenship Training (US Government Printing Office, 1931), Lesson 61.
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2
Von Zydowitz, Kurt. Die Geschichte der 58. Infanterie-Division 1939–1945 (Podzun: Kiel, 1952).
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