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Kind of on the same topic. As some of you know I collect WW2 uniforms and artifacts, and am working to open a museum in the future.
Anyhow, at a flea market in Germany a few days ago I purchased some Feldpost. One of them was a letter from the company commander to the family of a solder from Esslingen, Germany names Otfried Schneider, who was killed in April 1944 in Ukraine on the eastern front. He was serving in the 769. Grenadier Regiment.
In the letter, the officer is informing the Scheider family of their son Otfried's death in battle. The letter details how Otfried died from a direct hit by an I.G. shell during an attack on Barylow, and was killed instantly, and mentions the intense resistance from the Russians that day. It also notes that his comrades who were with him are also dead. The lieutenant intends to photograph Otfried's grave in Wolica-Barylowa and send the picture to the family.
The 769. Grenadier Regiment was part of the 340th Infantry Division. The division was destroyed by Soviet forces in the Brody Pocket in July 1944 and was dissolved on 13 August 1944.
Anyhow I began to do some research, and the field grave he was buried in is no longer marked and his remains have gone missing. According to the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge he was born on July 5, 1925 and was reported KIA on April 24, 1944.
Otfried Schneider's remains have not yet been transferred to a military cemetery established by the Volksbund (German War Graves Commission). His burial site has not yet been found. If you have any information, please contact [email protected].
Anyhow, at a flea market in Germany a few days ago I purchased some Feldpost. One of them was a letter from the company commander to the family of a solder from Esslingen, Germany names Otfried Schneider, who was killed in April 1944 in Ukraine on the eastern front. He was serving in the 769. Grenadier Regiment.
In the letter, the officer is informing the Scheider family of their son Otfried's death in battle. The letter details how Otfried died from a direct hit by an I.G. shell during an attack on Barylow, and was killed instantly, and mentions the intense resistance from the Russians that day. It also notes that his comrades who were with him are also dead. The lieutenant intends to photograph Otfried's grave in Wolica-Barylowa and send the picture to the family.
The 769. Grenadier Regiment was part of the 340th Infantry Division. The division was destroyed by Soviet forces in the Brody Pocket in July 1944 and was dissolved on 13 August 1944.
Anyhow I began to do some research, and the field grave he was buried in is no longer marked and his remains have gone missing. According to the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge he was born on July 5, 1925 and was reported KIA on April 24, 1944.
Otfried Schneider's remains have not yet been transferred to a military cemetery established by the Volksbund (German War Graves Commission). His burial site has not yet been found. If you have any information, please contact [email protected].
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