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The desecration of the graves of Waffen-SS men killed during the Jan. 1943 battles, and the mutilation of the bodies, made the Leibstandarte SS very loath to show any quarter to captured Soviet commissars. Many captured commissars or senior Soviet officers were executed as a matter of routine. An alleged massacre took place on March 13 1943, at the Soviet 69th Army Hospital in Kharkov. Leibstandarte troops are supposed to have killed some hundred wounded Soviet soldiers, but the factual reliability of these Soviet records has occasionally been questioned. On the other hand, however, special German security units and mobile killing squads followed behind the victorious German divisions. The vast majority of these squads on the Eastern Front were made up of East European volunteers. Already by the end of 1942 there was only one German for every ten local auxiliaries. An estimated 10,000 men and women perished during the German short reign of control in the city of Kharkov. Left image: photo of SS-Untersturmführer and adjutant Werner Wolff by SS-KB Max Büschel, probably taken in connection with the award of the Knight's Cross on Aug. 7 1943. Wolff served with SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 2 LSSAH under command of SS-Sturmbannführer Joachim Peiper during the battles for Kharkov. Peiper recommended Wolff for his actions after he stopped a Soviet tank attack. He destroyed one tank single handedly and refused to give ground to the Soviet attack. In Nov. 1943 Wolff was shot through the thigh and was due to have the leg amputated. However, when the medical orderly arrived, he drew his pistol and warned the orderly he was not losing his leg, even firing a warning shot into the ground. According to German author and RK holder Walther-Peer Fellgiebel, Wolff was seriously wounded in the head by shrapnel whilst in the turret of his Panther during Op. Spring Awakeningin Hungary on March 20 1945. Werner Wolff died in the military hospital of Gotzendorf an der Leitha in Lower Austria on March 29 1945. Credit: Cassowary. U.S. NARA. Right image: photo believed to show SS troops in captured Kharkov. Credit: Julius Backman. c. Bundesarchiv.
What has not been questioned is the mutilation and murder of around 150 wounded Germans in a hospital in Feodosia on the Crimean peninsula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Feodosia
Soviet officers even shot their own doctors and injured soldiers in Crimea (the entire hospital was blown up by withdrawing soviet troops) to get rid of them as a liability.
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ReplyDeleteWhat has not been questioned is the mutilation and murder of around 150 wounded Germans in a hospital in Feodosia on the Crimean peninsula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Feodosia
ReplyDeleteSoviet officers even shot their own doctors and injured soldiers in Crimea (the entire hospital was blown up by withdrawing soviet troops) to get rid of them as a liability.
DeleteDoes Werner Wolff have a grave?
ReplyDeleteWolff engaged and neutralized a T-34 in close combat and took out a Soviet general in a man-to-man struggle with his dagger. That dude didn't play.
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