Document from WASt

Hello,

I think too, that it will be a spare unit. As it concerns the ancestor in a straight line, you can try to get a current copy of service, the one above looks for years 50. WASt was incorporated into the Bundesarchiv. New documents are found every now and then. I know from my own experience, that it pays to renew the application. 8 for years I was looking for any information about my grandmother's brother, knowing only the name and surname, parents' details and address as well, that he was missing / killed somewhere on the Eastern Front. On the second approach to WASt, I received info with my birthday data and nearly a year's course of service until the day of my disappearance. I was also recommended to contact the Arolsen Archives and Deutsches Rotes Kreuz in Munich because his further fate was unknown. Close 2 years I have received a reply. from DRC , that my grandmother's brother belongs to a group of people, whose fate still could not be explained and info , that shortly before my birth someone was already looking for him, plus the personal and address details of this person. I am providing a link to the current application
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Downloads/Benutzen/antrag-persbez-recherche-militaer.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
which you must complete and send to >
Federal Archives
Department PA
Eichborndamm 179
13403 Berlin

Regards
Marek

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by KAPHIS.

Hello. Recently, I received a reply from the Bundes Archiv, that my great-grandfather also served in the Landesschützen Ausbildungs ​​Bataillon 8, except that in 1944 already belonged to Stamm Kompanie Landesschützen Ersatz Bataillon 8 (personnel company). On my own, I found photos of the training of this unit, held in Lienz, Austria in 1943 year. Do you have any more photos or documents about other members of the formation? I am happy to share my own information. Regards.