Obedient Unto Deat. - A Panzer-Grenadier of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler Reports (Kindler Werner)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

Drafted into the SS-Totenkopf in 1939, Werner Kindler served with a motorized unit in Poland before, in May 1941, he was selected for the elite Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler. It was with the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler that he participated in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union from June 1941.
Werner's unit converted to a Panzer Grenadier formation in 1942, and he went on to fight at Kharkov and Kursk on the Eastern Front. Having transferred to the Western Front in 1944, Werner later fought in Belgium and France, in the Ardennes campaign, in Hungary and, finally, in Austria,
Between 1941 and 1944 Waffen-SS Oberscharf hrer Werner Kindler took part in eighty-four days of close combat. As a result, he was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Gold (for participation in more than fifty battles) on 1 April 1945 - being one of only 631 men who received this
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