Wehrmacht soldier | Memory of Nations

Pavel Höchsmann wearing the uniform of the Auxiliary Technical Batallions.

Pavel Höchsmann

* 1927

People from former eastern territories of Germany (to 1945), PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Royal Air Force, Boy Scouts, Sokol and 6 more categories

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Josef Hofmann in the Wehrmacht, 1944

Private (ret.) Josef Hofmann

* 1926 †︎ 2011

National minorities, Memory of vanished settlements, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 4 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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Eduard Hones

* 1937 †︎ 2014

National minorities, Sudeten Germans, Wehrmacht soldier, Border Guards, Re-emigration of Czechs after 1945 and 1 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Young Bohumil Hrubý

Bohumil Hrubý

* 1928 †︎ unknown

National minorities, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 30. 5. 1953 – 3. 6. 1953 – The monetary reform and subsequent public upheaval and 1 more anniversaries

Bedřich Hubáček (Friedrich Hubatzek) - in German army - photo taken during his holiday in Bělá in 1944

Bedřich Hubáček

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Veteran of WW2, eastern front, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 20. 6. - 29. 8. 1944 - Operation Bagration, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia

Juraj Janko

Juraj Janko

* 1921

Veteran of WW2, eastern front, Participant in antifascist resistance, Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Red Army soldier, Wehrmacht soldier and 2 more categories

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 9. – 1. 11. 1944 - The battle of the Dukla Pass, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age and 1 more anniversaries

František Josefus

* 1925 †︎ 2022

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2

Adolf Kaleta at the time when he fought at Dunkerque

Colonel (ret.) Adolf Kaleta

* 1925 †︎ 2018

Veteran of WW2, western front, National minorities, Wehrmacht soldier

29. 9. 1938 - The Munich Diktat, 1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk, 2. 10. 1938 - Poland's annexation of Teschen area, 6. 6. 1944 - Overlord and 1 more anniversaries

Josef Kaluža

Private First Class Josef Kaluža

* 1923

Veteran of WW2, western front, Wehrmacht soldier, People helping Jews during WWII, Prisoner of War/ P.O.W

1. 9. 1939 - The outbreak of the WW2, 5. 10. 1944 – 9 5 1945 – the siege of Dunkirk

Oswald Kittel in 2021

Oswald Kittel

* 1929

Illegal border crossing, National minorities, Victim of forced relocation, Sudeten Germans, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII and 2 more categories

30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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