Hauptmann Friedrich Winkler

 

Hauptmann Friedrich Konrad Winkler (center) sets the combat mission for the soldiers of the 305th Infantry Division of the Nazi Wehrmacht in the area of ​​the Stalingrad factory “Barricades”.

First left: commander of the 305th Battalion of the 305th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht (Pionier-Bataillon 305, 305.Infanterie-Division) Hauptmann Wilhelm Traub, (11/14/1895 – 01/05/1943), he is armed with Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun .
In February 1943, the Hauptmann (Captain) Friedrich Winkler was captured and died shortly afterwards in a prisoner of war camp in Beketovka.

 

 

Location: Stalingrad, USSR
Date: November 1942
Photo: Kurt Heine

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