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Winnecken Gerhard was captured by the Americans. He still had a rifle grenade in his pocket after being searched. He...

[Annotator's Note: Gerhard Franzky served in the Waffen SS as a communications officer in Headquarters, 22nd Regiment,...

At the time, Gerhard Franzky thought Hitler was a great man. Franzky's father got another job and was later able to...

Burt Richard Sadler remained on the ship all night. The next day, he heard the anchor rise, and the ship went into the...

Both Air Forces [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Forces and the Royal Canadian Air Force] did a good job of...

Lutz Windisch and his fellow prisoners [Annotator's Note: he was taken prisoner by Russian forces near Breslau, Poland...

Gerhard Franzky could quit the Hitler Youth but he was not allowed to quit the civil defense. Soon it was 1942. Many of...

Winnecken Gerhard returned to his homeland after the war. He sailed on a Liberty Ship which took much longer than his...

Gerhard Franzky’s unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 22nd Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsburg"] suffered...

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

Lutz Windisch was born in 1925 in Königssee in Bavaria [Annotator's Note: Königssee, Bavaria, Germany], where he also...

Gerhard Franzky's home in Leipzig was occupied by the Russians. Having already been to Russia once before, Franzky had...

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