Hi there.
When posting in the "greatest military thread" I thought it would actually be interesting to hear some stories from people. Things their grandparents told them or you found out yourself about your relatives.
So here is what I posted about my grandfather in the other thread:
He had to join the German army in 1939 btw.
To be honest I don't know how he got captured. It's 10 years ago since he died and I wasn't THAT interested in all that at that time So I only remember a few things and a few other things my father told me my grandfather had told him. In general he didn't really like to talk too much about it all. I have his "Soldbuch" however. So I have a list of the units he fought in but the book is not very detailed in the end anymore. There are very few entries after D-Day, numbers of regiment don't appear that often anymore, handwriting not very readable and additionally after he got captured the Allies blackened all stamps showing the swastikas and parts of the text got painted over as well.
What I could reconstruct was that he was in the 387.Infantrie-Division
just scroll down to the 387 to see the places they were at.
he was wounded 2 times: once in the chest by a sniper in 42, then again by a grenade piece in the leg in the beginning of 44.
Then he was transfered to the west to the Grenadier-Regiment 915 at St.Lo.
Unit got destroyed at some time. Maybe someone has more knowledge of the events during that time. The last entries in the book are an EK recieved on 18th October 44 and a new gun a Karabiner 43 recieved on 6th November 44. Then transfered to the Ardennes with 352.Volksgrenadier-Division.
There he must have been captured but I don't know any details.
He was at home 2 times during the war. each time after he was wounded. He finally returned from captivity in 1947.