Erwin-Rommel-inspecting-western-German-defenses-early-1944. Deo Vindice/texag57

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-198-1384-14, Russland, marschierende Infanterie

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SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Waldmüller (*September 13, 1912 at Bamberg/Germany; +September 8, 1944 at Basse-Bodeux/Belgium), commander 1st Battalion/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 of 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend". Knight's Cross awarded on August 27, 1944 for his unit's defensive achievements during the fierce battles around Caen/Normandy. During the German retreat through Belgium Waldmüller was lured into an ambush by Belgian partisans and beastly murdered. When his body was recovered by his troops it was slashed open, the genitals were cut off and the body was dumped into a drain pipe of a tarn. Hans Waldmüller -along with Untersturmführer Marquardt who was killed by headshot in  the same incident- today rests at the German military cemetery at Düren-Rölsdorf near Aachen/Western Germany.