Joe B
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I obtained an absolutley fabulous grouping of photos , documents , letters and helmet that was issued to an HJ boy who worked at the Arado aircraft factory.
This grouping belonged to : Otto Herbert Graupner .
Graupner was born on 19 February of 1924 . It looks like he went to special schools in aviation mechanics . Apon graduation he was assigned to the ARADO aircraft factory in Wittenberg Germany . I believe he worked at ARADO from April 1 of 1939 to at least the 30th of September of 1942 when around that time he was drafted into the Waffen SS .
Otto Graupner was listed as Killed in Action in the area of Schitomir Russia on the 20th of December of 1943. The last document in this grouping is a death certificate dated 23 February of 1959 with this confirmation.
I am asking anyone of you out there who can read German to translate the letters Otto Graupner sent to his parents from the front lines in Russia ... the letters are dated November 12 1943 , November 26 1943 and sadly the last letter is dated December 10 1943 , problibly his last letter home . My mother read them to me once as she is German , from what I can remember the letters were describing the total misery with the conditions at the front lines and dealing with the death of comrades . My mother said she could not finish translating as it brought back to many horrible memories of the war .
This grouping belonged to : Otto Herbert Graupner .
Graupner was born on 19 February of 1924 . It looks like he went to special schools in aviation mechanics . Apon graduation he was assigned to the ARADO aircraft factory in Wittenberg Germany . I believe he worked at ARADO from April 1 of 1939 to at least the 30th of September of 1942 when around that time he was drafted into the Waffen SS .
Otto Graupner was listed as Killed in Action in the area of Schitomir Russia on the 20th of December of 1943. The last document in this grouping is a death certificate dated 23 February of 1959 with this confirmation.
I am asking anyone of you out there who can read German to translate the letters Otto Graupner sent to his parents from the front lines in Russia ... the letters are dated November 12 1943 , November 26 1943 and sadly the last letter is dated December 10 1943 , problibly his last letter home . My mother read them to me once as she is German , from what I can remember the letters were describing the total misery with the conditions at the front lines and dealing with the death of comrades . My mother said she could not finish translating as it brought back to many horrible memories of the war .
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