Hauptsturmführer

The strange health of Captain Hoffman.

Until the fall of 1942, 3rd Company of Reserve Police Battalion 101, under Captain and SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Wolfgang Hoffmann, had led a charmed existence, largely spared from the killing that was becoming the predominant activity of the other units in the battalion.

At Josefo, two platoons of 3rd Company had initially been assigned to the outer cordon, and none of its members had been sent to the firing squads in the woods.

When the battalion was transferred to the northern security zone in the Loveland district, 2nd and 3rd platoons of 3rd Company were stationed in the county of Palawi.

It then turns east around Denbrink to the St Elizabeth Hospital.

SS Hauptsturmführer Hans Möller's 100 men of SS-Panzer-Pionier Abteilung 9 hold the Diependal, den Brink, the Klingelbeekseweg and the Utrecht-Straatweg.

Behind them, in the railway marshalling yard, stand SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Gropp's 85 men of SS-Panzer-Flak Abteilung 9.

The southern section holds the Utrecht-Straatweg and the Onderlangs.

The realization by subsequent generations of what their ancestors had done was often belated and shocking.

Friedrich Wilhelm Boger, Ursula's grandfather, was an SS-Hauptsturmführer at Auschwitz, an SS staff sergeant.

He devised the Boger swing.

The victim was bound hand and foot, set swinging from a beam, and whipped, often to death.

When Grabner's battalion went south to Nijmegen, another was transferred to the 9th SS Panzer Division in exchange, with effect from 1730 hours.

This is SS Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Brinkmann's SS-Panzeraufklärungsabteilung.

Ten Brinkmann has already been ordered to patrol the north bank of the lower Rhine as far as Emmerich, some 40 kilometers upstream, to establish the extent of the landings.

Finding nothing, he orders SS-Obersturmführer, Karl Siebrecht's first company to Arnhem, to secure the road bridge, following fresh instructions from the Corps.