accompanying the 9th Panzer Division with Army Group South, was
dipping deeply into his courage bank at the six-week point. On 4
August his battalion lost four officers among 14 dead, 47 wounded and
two missing, all within 24 hours.
At Temovka his captain was shot through the head just after he left
his side to cross a street. His close friend Wimmer from another
had
friend Schober was struck by a grenade splinter which penetrated his
same inauspicious place and a third comrade also fell, all within the
the lot of the German infantryman in the sixth week of the campaign.
350 men had perished in his battalion over five weeks.The graves would
something from our own souls that we left behind us'
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