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On 1 August 1942 Major Karl August Meinel was shifted into the Führerreserve, because on 13 January 1942 he wrote a critical report to General Hermann Reinecke on the segregation and execution of Russian prisoners of war in Stalag VII-A by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst SD (security service) of the Reichsführer SS (Heinrich Himmler). [6]
Karl Rudolf Ernst Auguste Hermann Reinecke (14 February 1888 – 10 October 1973) generally known as Hermann Reinecke was a German general and war criminal during the Nazi era. As head of the General Office of the Armed Forces in the OKW (Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht ) during World War II , he was a major contributor to the prisoner-of-war ...
Brigade: General-Major Karl Georg Friedrich von Wobeser [20] Ernst Fusilier Battalion # 19; One Foot Jäger company; Wobeser Dragoon Regiment # 14, five squadrons; Lehmann Horse Artillery Battery # 4 (-), four 4-pound guns; Corps de Bataille: General Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. 1st Brigade: unknown commander Borstell ...
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Vilnius with a sign pointing to the HKP 562 forced labor camp. After having hired endangered Jews in the Vilna Ghetto to work in his unit's workshops from 1941 to 1943, thereby protecting the workers and their families from the murderous activities of the SS, the HKP camp was hastily erected in September 1943 when Plagge learned of the impending liquidation ...
The following websites are excellent sources for the full names of French and Prussian generals. Broughton, Tony. napoleon-series.org Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1792-1815 (in German) Montag, Reinhard. lexikon-deutschegenerale.de Lexikon der Deutschen Generale; Media related to Battle of Prenzlau at Wikimedia Commons
Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53) was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing of World War II.It operated in Western Europe and in the Mediterranean. Jagdgeschwader 53 - or as it was better known, the "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader - was one of the oldest German fighter units of World War II with its origins going back to 1937.
An example of an illustration from the Thirty Years' War showing a drum used as a table at military executions. A drumhead court-martial is a court-martial held in the field to render summary justice for offenses committed in action.