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Birthday and POB

1/23 born in Regensburg Germany

Adress

24 Regerplatz in Munich

Children

3 sons, twins Gunther and Simon ages 5, and Albert age 2

Age

40

what college did you attend before WWII

Bavarian War College

Football team

Bayern Munich, two favority players Phillip Lamm and Franz Beckenbauer

where was bootcamp and initial training

Camp Hueberg in Baden-Wurttemberg

officers served

Captian Johann Wachterhauser, Captain Wilhelm Schmidt, Major Erich von Hausen, and major Adler Leonhard

Wife

Greta, met at Bavarian college

What happened after the event

Had a tree lighting ceremony. Sang silent night, and O Tannenbaum while they drank their Gluhwein and ate stollen roll

Professors

Major Diedrich Strossel, Colonel Heinrich Hossenbeck, and Colonel Johann Beck

Motto of the SS

My honor is my loyalty

What was each officers issued weapon

P38 pistol

flaws of tiger tank

tracks will displace easily, only 16 kilometers per gallon, and could not fire common X-16 shell cause it jammed the gun

plus side of tiger tank

could travel 42 kilometers per hour and its gun had a range of 500 meters

Army Experience

Served in 2nd Regiment under Colonel Theodore Eicke as part of 3rd Amored Panzer Division under General Helmuth Becker and General Max Simon. Rose to rank of major

Job

Teaching geometry at Rupprecht Gymnasium located at 7 Albrechtstrasse in Munich

Name

Wilhelm Strauss

Tradition at Bavarian War College tradition

after candidates finished their exams before Christmas, the went to the officers club for a meal of bratwurst, potatoes, and cabbage. Then without a break, drink a liter of beer out of their combat helmet. if they failed they had to buy a keg for the training officers

Battle wounds and where did you serve

served on eastern front. Wounded in the right leg at Mius river after my tank was hit. Then I was shot in the leg and the arm at the second battle of targu. Left for the hospital before the end of the war

image on regiment patch

skull and bones


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