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H.N., if you scroll down on the first scanned discharge paper, you will see the section called: Medical Certificate, just below that are two handwritten notes next to DISTINGUISING MARKS: NARBE UNTERLIPPE (LINKS) " " LINKER OBERARM <-- scar on left upper arm Hope this helps!!! I really wis...

I don't want to take over this thread, so these are the last couple of pictures I'm going to post for those of you who are interested. The first picture shows my grandfather just after he joined: 1a.jpg The final picture is taken with his brother, Helmut (I think) who went missing somewhere in Russi...

Here are the pictures as promised:

Here are the POW discharge papers:

My grandfather's POW papers do state "Narbe am linken Oberarm", so he definitely did have a scar but I don't know about the details of how he got away with it. I will post a picture of his release papers soon. I still have to scan them.

Hi, first of all, I would like to thank John Moore very much for his patience and help while I researched my grandfather's service in the Waffen-SS. For those who are interested, I am just going to write a little summary here with a couple of pictures of my grandfather Gerhard Schlichting. I never e...