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Chapter Finder Editorial 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Epilog Anhang Chronik 40–45 January February March April May June July August September October November December Eine Art Bilanz Gedankensplitter und Betrachtungen Personen Orte Abkürzungen Stichwort-Index Organigramme Literatur Galerie:Fotos,Karten,Dokumente Chronik 45–49 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Erfahrungen i.d.Gefangenschaft Bemerkungen z.russ.Mentalität Träume i.d.Gefangenschaft Personen-Index Namen,Anschriften Personal I.R.477 1940–44 Übersichtskarte (Orte,Wege) Orts-Index Vormarsch-Weg Codenamen der Operationen im Sommer 1942 Mil.Rangordnung 257.Inf.Div. MG-Komp.eines Inf.Batl. Kgf.-Lagerorganisation Kriegstagebücher Allgemeines Zu einzelnen Zeitabschnitten Linkliste Rotkreuzkarte Originalmanuskript Briefe von Kompanie-Angehörigen

Table of Con­tents

• Editorial
• First Book: The War
  • Preface
  • Part 1
    • Last Years of Peace
    • First Indications of the War
    • Summoned to Brandenburg on Havel
    • Detailed to Galicia
  • Part 2 – Occupation Time in Poland
  • Part 3 – Russian Campaign
    • Advance with the Führerreserve
    • Cauldron Battle of Uman
    • Further Advance and Fighting in Summer 1941
    • Winter Battles 1941/42
    • Summer Offensive and Advance 1942
    • Transport to France
  • Part 4 – Coast Guard in France
    • Arrival and First Leave
    • Coast Guard in Brittany
  • Part 5 – Back to the Eastern Front
    • Transport Back To Russia
    • Positional Fighting on Donets River, Summer 1943
    • Soviet Summer Offensive 1943
    • Wounded and Homeland Stay
    • Bad Schandau – Carola
    • Back to the Front
  • Part 6 – Third Deployment To Russia
    • Into The Poach
    • Battles Of Retreat From River Dnepr To Kriwoi Rog
    • Second Wound
    • Third Wound
  • Part 7 – Second Hospital Time and Homeland Stay
    • Landshut
    • Trzebiatów
    • Marriage
    • Training Course
    • Gorzów Wielkopolski
    • Replacement Transfers To Courland
  • Part 8 – Fortress Courland
    • Transport Across the Baltic Sea
    • 4th through 6th Batttle of Courland
    • Fourth Wound
    • Promotion to First Lieutnant – EK I – Close Combat Clasp
    • Swampland Position south of Lake Liepāja
    • Surrender
• Second Book: Soviet War Captivity
  • Preface
  • I. Escape Attempt and Discovery
  • II. Camps in Courland
    • Kretinga
    • Ventspils
    • Riga
    • Salaspils
    • Christmas 1945
    • Bridge Camp
  • III. Smolensk
  • IV. Barysaw – Sloboda
    • Barysaw
    • Sloboda
    • Back to Barysaw
  • V. Release And Return Home after Four and a Half Years
    • Excerpt: Return Home to the Parents in Berlin, 14 Oct 1949
    • Excerpt: In Camp Friedland (19 Oct., 1949 – scan of the original typoscript)
  • VI. Sort Of A Balance Of The Captivity
    • Experiences on Captivity
    • Remarks on the Russian Mentality
  • VII. Thoughts and Considerations during Captivity
    • Dreams during Captivity

From here downwards, page contents are (and may need no translation) except when marked

• Epilog

• Appendix
  • Persons
    • Index of Persons
    • Names and addresses
    • 1940–1944 Staffing of Infantry resp. Grenadier Regiment 477
  • Locations
    • Overview map (locations and routes)
    • Index of Locations
    • Advance Route
  • Abbreviations
    • Codenames of the Operations in Summer 1942
  • Index of Subjects
  • Organigrams
    • German Military Rank and Unit Designations
    • Organisation Chart of 257th Infantry Division
    • Organisation Chart of the Weapons Company of an Infantry Batallion
    • Organisation of Soviet POW Camps 1945–1949
  • Bibliography
    • Official War Diaries
    • General
    • About Single Periods of Time
    • Link list: Used and Recommended Web Sites with Documents, Maps etc.
  • Gallery: Photos, Maps, Documents
    • Specimen of a Red Cross Postcard
    • Orininal Manuscript: The Last 6 Existing Pages as Example of the Version Written Down in Captivity, with Tentative Trans­scription
    • Letters of Company Members to the Author's Father in 1946

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Editorial 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Epilog Anhang

January February March April May June July August September October November December Eine Art Bilanz Gedankensplitter und Betrachtungen Personen Orte Abkürzungen Stichwort-Index Organigramme Literatur Galerie:Fotos,Karten,Dokumente

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Erfahrungen i.d.Gefangenschaft Bemerkungen z.russ.Mentalität Träume i.d.Gefangenschaft Personen-Index Namen,Anschriften Personal I.R.477 1940–44 Übersichtskarte (Orte,Wege) Orts-Index Vormarsch-Weg Codenamen der Operationen im Sommer 1942 Mil.Rangordnung 257.Inf.Div. MG-Komp.eines Inf.Batl. Kgf.-Lagerorganisation Kriegstagebücher Allgemeines Zu einzelnen Zeitabschnitten Linkliste Rotkreuzkarte Originalmanuskript Briefe von Kompanie-Angehörigen