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From: "Nick Tullius" <>
Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] re Prinz Eugene SS
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:25:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20071106132351.266500@gmx.net>


It is my understanding that those (few) joining the German Armed Forces in
1939 were true volunteers (not "volunteered by force" as in 1943).
The tattoo was specific to the members of the Waffen-SS, an elite military
formation (the political SS was something else completely).
The Germans were stopped just beyond Leningrad in the north and Moscow in
the east, so I would agree that they did not really advance into Siberia
(where the Soviets had moved most of their industry).

Best regards,
Nick Tullius
www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen




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Behalf Of Elmar Fischer
Sent: 6-Nov-07 8:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] re Prinz Eugene SS


if he fought in the Soviet Union (unlikely that it was Siberia though), he
was most probably not in the 7th SS "Prinz Eugen" as this division was
engaged only on the territory of former Yugoslavia and briefly in Italy
(1943).

If he was conscripted in 1939 he could have been in another SS division or
perhaps even a regular Wehrmacht unit. Should the circumstances and place
and date of his capture be known, the unit might be identifiable. Otherwise
the WASt. ( http://dd-wast.javabase.de/frame_e.htm ) might be able to help
with his military career.

However, it is very unlikely that he was conscripted into the German army in
1939, directly from Kathreinfeld, as there would be no German jurisdiction
over Yugoslav territory in 1939. It looks like the conscription(?) date
(year) has been mixed up, as it happens quite often with all sort of war
related information, especially when it comes to dates.


cheers
Elmar Fischer

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 12:41:38 +1100
> Von: "R Curran" <>
> An:
> Betreff: [BANAT-L] re Prinz Eugene SS

> My father lived in Kathreinfeld. He was conscripted to the German
> army in 1939. He didn't say much about the war but he said he fought
> in Siberia and then he was captured and was put in a Russian
> concentration camp. Could he have been in the Prinz Eugene SS. I
> know he had some sort of tatoo under his armpit and we were therefore
> not accepted to emigrate to the USA because of this. regards
> Renate
> email
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