Something "new"to Chew on:
Everyone who read the book knows that during the severe fighting in
Memel Sajers unit was involved in constant heavy fighting,
the fighting was that hard and desorientating that some sort of madness
developed around the entire unit..
Think of it :to everyone astonishment the veteran commits some sort of suicide (whilst he always had been the cornerstone of the unit)
after that their leutnant Wollers twice tries to commit suicide, first time he ran out of a bunker during a heavy bombardement, rescuers save him and get him back to the bunkers safety,
Second time after the danger in the fog in the area north of Memel (cliff area) he orders the men not to follow him back to Memel (center of Memel was virtually a death trap russians had taken all key areas) and wants to die at Memel, the unit disobey the order and do follow him, then
halfway on the beach they rest and subsequently hear the Rescuers boat calling the mistakingly other harbor further north Windau, Windau!
Well it seems very likely there was a good reason for leutnant Wollers to be suicidal, did he knew anything he did not tell the soldiers?
Did he miss the last evac. point of the Grossdeutschland?
The last GD unit leaving Memel:
2nd Battalion, Pz.Gren.Rgt. "GD" left aboard the ship Wolta on 4 December 1944 and reached the port of Pillau near Koenigsberg without incident.
Was this the last embarkation point, due to the relentless defensive actions of the unit?
I think leutnant Wollers somehow totally missed the evac. point or was told to rearguard the entire evacuation of the last remaining GD troops,
Nevertheless the unit virtually came to the point of being entirely wiped out at Memel,
They were just ectremely lucky catching up with a boat that due to the fog,entirely missed its harbor Windau end ended up south