I just got a lot regarding SS-Obersturmführer Willi Peter Hansmann.
He was chef of 1. SS Panzer-Aufklärungs-Kompanie, 12.SS-Aufklarung-Abteilung Hitler Jugend.
This lot I just got have 18 photos and 26 fieldpost letters, going from 1939, where he was in 6. SS-Germania over to 1942 where he was in 2. SS-Nordland, then in later in 1942 he was in 1. Kompanie, Aufklärungs-Abteilung SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking and Stab, SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung (5. SS-Division Wiking). Last in his carriere he was the leader of 1. Kompanie, Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 12 (12. SS-Division).
As I was googling regarding his name I found this warcrime when he was in Normandy.
I am looking to get a copy of his Personals Akten, if that is posible, and all other informations + photos regarding SS-Obersturmführer Willi Peter Hansmann.Chateau d’Audrieu/Pavie - June 8, 1944:
24 Canadian and two British troops captured by the 12th SS AA at Brouay are transferred to a escort guard from the III/SS-PGR 26 and marched down the road to Pavie. But the POWs are then stopped at a crossroad just easy of Pavie, and searched. A small group of POWs is separated from the main body and interrogated by 12th SS AA CO Gerhard Bremer and a Capt. Gern von Reitzenstein (AA company HQ CO) at the Chateau d’Audrieu. Bremer, who speaks English fluently, interrogates Canadian Major Frederick Hodge, CO of A Company, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, and two enlisted men for fifteen minutes. Bremer then orders SS-Obersturmführer Willi-Peter Hansmann to kill the prisoners. Hansmann and a small execution squad gun the POWs down at the edge of a nearby wood.
Bremer then calls for another set and interrogates three more Canadian POWs, all enlisted men, one a Pvt. David Gold a medic from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Again, after a brief conversation, Bremer orders the POWs to lie on their stomachs, and then the SS guards under a NCO fire their rifles point-blank into the skulls of the prostrate POWs. The SS executions then visit the chateau kitchen for cider and food.
Word of a nearby Allied probe forces Bremer to briefly halt the interrogations as the surviving 20-odd POWs are held under guard. By 430 PM, Bremer has the remaining POWs executed in two batches. By early evening, Allied shellfire forces Bremer to withdraw from Pavie and Chateau d’Audrieu. The British Dorset’s Regiment occupies the building and discovers the bodies of the 13 executed Canadian prisoners.
Thank you in advance.
