Meetings with Totenkopf Division Veterans
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Excellent post, thanks for sharing that. I have been interested in an English translation of "Soldaten Kampfer Kameraden" for quite some time, do you know the status of that project?
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Thanks, but I have not heard of any further effort to translate those books into English. Has anyone else heard anything?
Here are a couple more photos of Paul Steinecke taken in 1943.
Here are a couple more photos of Paul Steinecke taken in 1943.
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another from 1943
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Hi John,
Boy-o-boy..... Paul Steinecke sure reminds me of Harry Carey, Jr.
http://harrycareyjr.com/indexa.htm
Photo from "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949)
--Guy
Boy-o-boy..... Paul Steinecke sure reminds me of Harry Carey, Jr.
http://harrycareyjr.com/indexa.htm
Photo from "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949)
--Guy
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Maybe Steinecke looks more like Harry Carey in this photo from July 1941 when he was a Speiß or 1st Sergeant and packing iron. The officer on the right is Erwin Schumacher, the Totenkopf Signal Battalion commander.
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Thanks. Great post.
Only he is lost who gives himself up as lost.
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Hi John,
That's a great picture of der Spieß -- "Die Mutti der Kompanie" (sorry if my grammar is wrong .... that's what Herr Schultz at Sembach AB used to tell us back in 1976).
--Guy
That's a great picture of der Spieß -- "Die Mutti der Kompanie" (sorry if my grammar is wrong .... that's what Herr Schultz at Sembach AB used to tell us back in 1976).
--Guy
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Here's a photo of Steinecke on the left next to his division commander, Helmut Becker, and corps commander, Herbert Gille, outside the "Totenkopf" Division command post in October 1944.
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Steinecke, second from the right, with General v.Lüdwitz at the command post of III./Rgt. "Eicke" on October 10, 1944. The battalion commander, Heinz Müller, who later received the Ritterkreuz, is to the left of Steinecke in the photo.