00:00the first award was given on june twenty four nineteen forty to the first lieutenant in the fourth company of
00:07the construction training battalion zbv eight hundred uwe walter he had captured the strategically important mars bridge at genep in
00:15holland
00:15as a commando leader during the campaign in france over which army group b of colonel general fader von bock
00:23was then able to continue its advance without hindrance
00:27at the end of 1944 on the 27th walter who was born on january 27 1910 in dresden was severely
00:38wounded as a lieutenant colonel and regimental commander and after his recovery from march 1945 until the end of the
00:45war
00:45to become chief of staff with an ss rank in the so-called ss jagdverbände under ss standartenführer otto scott
00:55zeni that was also the reason why walter went into hiding in austria under the assumed name uwe schütze from
01:04may 1945
01:05warfareaniaaniaaniaaniaania
Comments