From chapter 5.1 of "Career, Crimes and Trial of SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel": the hamlet of Bech near Vielsalm-Salmchâteau where Knittel was caught up in an Allied bomber attack resulting in him being hospitalised with a serious concussion.
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Part 2 of Five Days in December is live.
This time, I look beyond the records to understand my father’s experience at Elsenborn during the Battle of the Bulge at just 19 years old.
What do morning reports really reveal? #BattleoftheBulge #WWII #Genealogy
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A WWII morning report. One line. My father’s name.
Part 1 of my new post follows five days in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Cold, wet, and unrelenting conditions during the winter of 1944 led to trench foot for many soldiers, including my father near Elsenborn, Belgium.
His story, in his own words and supported by records:
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Fr. Prégardien was murdered by the SS on the 19th of December 1944. Three months later, on the 23rd of March 1945, his body was found in the Amblève River near Coo...
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#PicOfTheDay The wonderful #CharlesShay #Indian #Memorial #OmahaBeach #Normandy. Unveiled on June 5th 2021 in honour of Charles who served as a medic throughout #WW2 & the #Korean War,he saved many lives from #DDay, the #BattleOfTheBulge through to his time in a #German #POW camp
Heather Cox Richardson's Battle of the Bulge series can be viewed here on YouTube.
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#PicOfTheDay The beautiful #Luxembourg #American #Cemetery #Hamm. Started on December 29th 1944 as the #BattleOfTheBulge raged, 5074 men now stand easy here, many falling in that battle. It is also the resting place of General George Patton. #WW2
25 January 1945: The Battle of the Bulge ended when the last German units were driven back to their original positions. #History #WW2 #BattleoftheBulge
December 22, 1944: Lieutenant Frank Warnock, photographed in front of the Dejardin house shortly after capturing SS-Obersturmführer Coblenz and his men and discovering the remains of 23 murdered civilians in the garden of the Legaye house across the street - 14 of them children.
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"Why must the human race periodically go crazy?"
1st Lieutenant Frank Warnock, 117/D, to Monique Thonon, letter date the 3rd of February 1985. Eighty years after Stavelot and forty years after this letter, this is unfortunately still relevant.
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[3/3] The soldiers were almost certainly members of the I. Bataillon of SS-Sturmbannführer Richter, but the company cannot be identified, let alone individual perpetrators.
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Jean Jacob photographed the bridge in Stavelot in January 1945. The first arch of the bridge was blown up by Lieutenant Cofer and his men, cutting off Peiper's supply route. The houses directly behind the bridge were destroyed in the ongoing American and German artillery shelling.
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On the evening of the 19th of December 1944, Lieutenant Leland E. Cofer and his men from Company ‘A’, 105th Combat Engineers Battalion blew op the Amblève River bridge in Stavelot.
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Telly Savalas
Real Name: Aristotelis Savalas
Birth: 21 Jan 1922
Garden City, Nassau County, New York, USA
#Death: 22 Jan 1994 aged 72
Universal City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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[3/3] On the other side of the river, on the main road from Stavelot to Trois-Ponts, the truck abandoned by the local coalman when he came face-to-face with the gepanzerte Gruppe of SS-Obersturmbannführer Peiper.
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Field grave of an unidentified German soldier in Stavelot. The photograph was taken in January 1945 by Jean Jacob. According to SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel, his Schnelle Gruppe lost 60 dead, 200 wounded and 20 missing in and around the town.
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The murders in Stavelot in all their cruelty: on the 28th of December 1944, nine days after the massacre, INP Pool Cameraman Allan Jackson took this photo of the victims in the garden of the Legaye house. In the foreground lie the remains of poor Jean Remy.
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AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-fall-of-nazi-germany/100166/
#OTD in 1945
‘A dead German soldier, killed during the German counter offensive in the Belgium-Luxembourg salient, is left behind on a street corner in Stavelot, Belgium, on January 2, 1945, as fighting moves on during the #BattleoftheBulge.’
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The casualty report for SS-Hauptsturmführer Wawrzinek states that he was wounded on the 2nd of January 1945, but does not mention where or how and does not detail the nature of his wound or wounds.
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[1/2] Farmer and sawmill owner Joseph Müller was born in Faymontville on the 13th of December 1903 to Louis (Ludwig) Müller and Marie Louise Clémentine Bodarwe and lived in Montenau with his wife Catherine Müller-Schindfessel.
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[1/2] In December 1944 the House of Parish Works in Wanne was the house of Anna and Euphrasie Maréchal. The sisters laid out the body of their brother Théophile in the house but had to flee Wanne the next morning...
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Théophile Maréchal was born on the 16th of November 1874, On the afternoon of the 20th of December 1944 the SS forced the 70-year-old lumberjack to come with them.
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Post Christmas bulge ... Help me work it off?!
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Dachau, the 16.07.1946, defendants Hennecke (23, death), Hillig (24, 10 years), Hofmann (25, life), Knittel (31, life), Kotzur (32, life) and Krämer (33, 10 years) anxiously await the verdicts.
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[1/3] Mug shot of SS-Sturmmann Trettin. In Schwäbisch Hall, Trettin and Kotzur both claimed that SS-Oberscharführer Bersin had been the driving force behind the shootings in Wanne. He gave the orders and told the two teenage soldiers who to kill...
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[1/2] The map Hans Trettin drew on the 31.01.1946 when he was being interrogated in Schwäbisch Hall prison depicting the locations where the first and second Belgian civilian mentioned in his statement were shot (A and B, both the front garden of the presbytery)...
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