I am working on a novel where one of the characters is a part-Jewish Austrian who volunteers for the Wehrmacht and is trained as a medic. Questions: Were medics attached to Wehrmacht units in the same manner as US Army units, ie, serving as members of combat units or were they a separate medical corps operating away from the front? Were they also unarmed? If not, what weapons were they assigned? Were their letters back home censored? By whom? To what extent? I would like to attach him to a unit that served in Poland in 1939, then France in 1940-1, then in the East towards the end of the war. Suggestions? How would a letter from home be addressed to him?
try here.. German Medical Services, WWII Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 35, October 7, 1943 (Lone Sentry) http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/SanEinheiten/Sankp-R.htm
Thanks for the leads. I needed more specifics, however, than these sources provided. Therefore, I need more help. Google has not been very helpful, either.
If written under a Feldpost number, letters were usually not censored, but soldiers knew what to write becasue if anything was ever discovered, they knew the risks .... and writing forbidden things was a risky business.
I've got a medical armband that is quite rare from the first C camp in poland, if you have webcam ill show you.I have recently bought 7 Feldpost. 1 from Africa, 1 from moscow, and the rest from France. 3 of which im certain are medical. Also the one from moscow explains going through poland, when I get them I will help you everyway possible! Im currently writting my own novel about a medic, if youd like I can help you, i may spell bad on here but im extremely good at writeing, no worries I wont steal your idea . Best wishes, and best of luck =)
Sounds like some nice stuff you bought. To go with your interest in German Medics, in a thread started by Skipper for me in the Militaria section on this site under Carls latest photos, Skipper posted two I managed to get recently that pu might like to see. Also, I have two more that shows German Medics newly awarded the War Merit Cross w/ Swords 2nd class. Those are in the same thread.
I posted a picture of the German medic satchel in the militaria section. I also have the Verbandkasten box and several bandages. They also had small oxygen bottles they carried around in a small wooden box and they had a large red cross flag in case they had to set up a first aid point.
