The Soldbuch, award documents and the story of Gottlieb Moll.
Gottlieb Moll born in 1926 in Alexandrovsk (Russia) lived with his stepfather and mother in Kiel, like all German youths he was a member of the Hitlerjugend and in March 1943 he became a "Marinehelfer", the navy's equivalent of the LW Flak-helfers.
He was assigned to a heavy flak batteries of Marine Flak Abteilung 221 based in Friedrichsort and Holtenau in his hometown Kiel.
In the spring of 1944 he was drafted in to the RAD but a couple months later he volunteered for the Waffen SS and on August 17 1944 he starts his military service with four weeks of basic training with the SS Panzer Ersatz Abteilung in the SS Panzer training facility in Sennelager.
After his basic training he is sent to I/SS Panzer Ausbildungs Regiment, he now gets the prestigious black Panzer uniform and on his uniform he wears the coastal artillery badge which he earned while serving with Marine Flak Abt 221.
Five weeks later he is serving in the training company of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 1 "LSSAH", this unit is being rebuild after the heavy losses of the summer of 1944.
Just before the start of the Ardennes offensive he is assigned as a messenger to the staff of SS Pz Gr Rgt 1 LSSAH, now known also as Kampfgruppe Hansen.
On the forth day of the bulge offensive, December 19 1944, when his unit is fighting in the Poteau area he is seriously hit by shrapnel in the left leg, so severe that his leg has to be amputated.
The war ends while he is in hospital; just before Christmas, December 22 1944, he is discharged and allowed to return home to his family.
Gottlieb Moll born in 1926 in Alexandrovsk (Russia) lived with his stepfather and mother in Kiel, like all German youths he was a member of the Hitlerjugend and in March 1943 he became a "Marinehelfer", the navy's equivalent of the LW Flak-helfers.
He was assigned to a heavy flak batteries of Marine Flak Abteilung 221 based in Friedrichsort and Holtenau in his hometown Kiel.
In the spring of 1944 he was drafted in to the RAD but a couple months later he volunteered for the Waffen SS and on August 17 1944 he starts his military service with four weeks of basic training with the SS Panzer Ersatz Abteilung in the SS Panzer training facility in Sennelager.
After his basic training he is sent to I/SS Panzer Ausbildungs Regiment, he now gets the prestigious black Panzer uniform and on his uniform he wears the coastal artillery badge which he earned while serving with Marine Flak Abt 221.
Five weeks later he is serving in the training company of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 1 "LSSAH", this unit is being rebuild after the heavy losses of the summer of 1944.
Just before the start of the Ardennes offensive he is assigned as a messenger to the staff of SS Pz Gr Rgt 1 LSSAH, now known also as Kampfgruppe Hansen.
On the forth day of the bulge offensive, December 19 1944, when his unit is fighting in the Poteau area he is seriously hit by shrapnel in the left leg, so severe that his leg has to be amputated.
The war ends while he is in hospital; just before Christmas, December 22 1944, he is discharged and allowed to return home to his family.
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