Appendices
for Oradour-sur-Glane 10th June 1944

Data for Oradour-sur-Glane Data for the SS Data for various Das Reich personnel from their SS records and other sources General data relating to Oradour Miscellaneous data relating to WWII

The car of Doctor Desourteaux

Data for Oradour-sur-Glane

• How to get there and places to stay
• Map of Das Reich's march route to Limoges ... (61Kb)
• Map of France showing the partitions as of 1944 ... (132Kb)
• Map showing the Haute-Vienne ... (151Kb)
• Town Plan of Oradour-sur-Glane ruins ... (87Kb)
• Town Plan of Oradour-sur-Glane new town ... (34Kb) ... New

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Data for the SS

• Commentary on SS Résumé and Assessment Procedures
• Order of Battle for Das Reich as of June 1944
• SS-Rank Table showing equivalents in the German, American and British Armies
• The SS, a Personal View
• Various SS insignia for both Das Reich and Der Führer (57Kb)

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Data for various Das Reich personnel from their SS records and other sources

Note 1: There is not one word relating to Oradour-sur-Glane to be found in any of the Nazi era, SS personnel records shown below.
Note 2: All translations from the original German language records are by the author.

Heinz Barth

• Heinz Barth's Service records (see also Chapter 3 of, In a Ruined State)
• Pictures of Heinz Barth

Adolf Diekmann

• Diekmann's 28 March 1941 assessment at Bad Tölz
• Diekmann's 25 February 1942 assessment at Bad Tölz
• Diekmann's Résumé of 18 August 1942 (transcript of his hand-written résumé)
• Diekmann's Résumé [page 1 of the original document] ... (119Kb)
• Diekmann's 3 October 1942 assessment at Bad Tölz
• Diekmann's 23 January 1943 report from Paris school for Panzer troops
• Diekmann's 28 February 1944 promotion request by Stadler
• Diekmann's 1 June 1944 assessment by Stadler
• Diekmann's personal data from his marriage application
• Diekmann's obituary notice from Das Schwarze Korps
• Page 48 from the July 1944 DAL showing Diekmann as: Kdr. I./4.Rgt. 2.SS-Pz.Div.,,DR'' ... (169Kb)

Karl Gerlach

• Press notice for the award of the German Cross in Gold to Gerlach
• Gerlach's promotion request of 1st April 1944
• Gerlach's assessment of 31st May 1944
• Gerlach's promotion request of 23rd October 1944
• The report of Obersturmführer Karl Gerlach

Otto Kahn

• Kahn's 4 March 1941 assessment from 'Reich' Division
• Kahn's 30 August 1941 promotion recommendation
• Kahn's 1 June 1944 assessment by Diekmann
• Page 87 from the July 1944 DAL showing Khan
• Kahn's statement at Dortmund in December 1962 ... New

Helmut Kämpfe

• See Chapter 3 of In a Ruined State

Heinz Lammerding

• Lammerding's Service Contract with the SS of 1 April 1935
• Lammerding's Résumé of 25 June 1935
• Lammerding's 1 July 1935 assessment from the Pioneer School at Leisnig (Saxony)
• Lammerding's 25 June 1936 assessment from the Pioneer School at Leisnig (Saxony)
• Memo regarding Lammerding's posting
• Lammerding's 29 September 1940 assessment from Totenkopf Division
• Request to award the German Cross in Gold to Lammerding
• Press note for the award of Lammerding's Knight's Cross
• Request by Lammerding for a 'Fellowship Camp'

Sylvester Stadler

• Sylvester Stadler SS-Personnel Examination List of 1934
• Stadler's first service report (1935)
• Stadler's assessment of 11 June 1939
• Stadler's assessment of 7 May 1942 at Bad Tölz
• Stadler's letter to Himmler of 17 September 1943
• Stadler's letter to Himmler of 17 September 1943 [original document] ... (23kb)
• Stadler's 25 June 1944 assessment by Lammerding

Otto Weidinger

• Weidinger's May 1934 assessment as a guard at Dachau
• Weidinger's June 1934 assessment as a guard at Dachau
• Weidinger's April 1935 psychological examination
• Weidinger's January 1936 assessment at Braunschweig
• Weidinger's December 1936 Infantry assessment
• Weidinger's September 1940 Aufklärungs assessment
• Weidinger's July 1942 assessment from Braunschweig / Belsen
• Weidinger's 23 January 1943 report from Paris school for Panzer troops
• Weidinger's Résumé of December 1943
• Weidinger's 25 June 1944 assessment by Lammerding
• Weidinger's nomination for the Oak Leaves, November 1944

PoW interogation transcripts

• Consolodated PoW report dated 7 July 1944 ... New
• PoW report dated 11 October 1944 ... New

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General data relating to Oradour

• Copy of the, "Sperrle Orders" for the suppression of the resistance
• Copy of, "The means of execution"
• Critique of Max Hastings book, "Das Reich" (presented by Marc Rikmenspoel)
• Dramatis Personae in the story of Oradour-sur-Glane
• Full list of names on memorial at Charly-Oradour
• Model of fire in the church at Oradour-sur-Glane
• "Oradour, retour sur un massacre" (broadcast by France 3 on 29th May 2004 & now available as a DVD) ... New
• The Oradours of France
• "Tulle and Oradour, the German view" (presented by Marc Rikmenspoel)
• Remembering the past ... New

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Miscellaneous data relating to WWII

• Dates, commonly misspelled words & accents
• Interview with Hitler's sister on 12th July 1945
• Interview with Hitler's sister on 5th June 1946
• Notes on language and terms used
• The 10th of June as a date in WWII history
• The Wannsee Conference 1942
• The flag of the Free French forces (used as the "favicon" for this website)

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