a family member after he died left some papers behind from he´s "partition" in ww2.
The papers consists a claim to compenstation for forced labor sent to Austria after the war, also which places in Poland to Hungary they traveled and back to austria (period 1944-1945). After the war he returned from Austria to Poland and so did his brother, for some reason he never spoke about his twin brother to people after the war
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My family member writes in his claim to Austria that he was with the Totenkopf SS in Hungary. He was Polish and found/captured by some SS in Poland outside a orfinage he lived in with he´s twin brother (I was told by mom). My question: is there Austrian Totenkopf SS aswell as german? Or did they just retreat to Austria from the russians? Where do I find out more about the SS movements in this area and maby what Unit?
There is also a Work Permit with some stamps for each month he was allowed to work or something, this Permit is written mostly in Polish and some few German words. He also got education in some Mecanical skills..for work at factories and similar. Grades from school (why did the germans give him that?!) with German language, Regligion and some more subjects that he passed with good results. Was told that he was asked to join the SS but he didn´t want to betray his own people but stayed with them, not sure he would have had a choise anyway. He looked pretty "german" with very clear bright blue eyes so maby thats why? He never spoke about the war, afraid of people beleving him to be nazi..but guess only he knew the truth about that. What is strange is that he´s 3rd brother run away to australia after russia captured half of europe, afraid of russians and what they would do to him. Have no clue what he did but anyone captured by Germans was to be shot anyway or have a "bad" lifte under the communist rule of eastern europe.