German Armored Forces & Vehicles

Helmut Ritgen at Cassel

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Captain Helmut Ritgen of II./Panzer-Regiment 11 interrogating British POW's after the battles around Cassel/France (May 27-30, 1940). After the war Ritgen, a retired Bundeswehr colonel, wrote several books about the German armored forces and his later unit, the Panzerlehrdivision.