Bio of Generalarzt (Luftwaffe) Dr.med. Otto Bengsch

Generalarzt Dr.med. Otto Bengsch
Born: 28 Jul 1879 in Guscht, District Friedeberg
Died: 15 Jul 1954 in Bad Schwartau
Doctorate In Medicine: 00 Mar 1904

Promotions:
Marine-Unterarzt (12 Jul 1904); Marine-Assistenzarzt (11 Sep 1904); Marine-Oberassistenzarzt (11 Oct 1906); Marine-Stabsarzt (06 Aug 1909); Marine-Oberstabsarzt (17 Dec 1916); Charakter als Marine-Generaloberarzt (28 Nov 1919); Charakter als Oberfeldarzt (01 Nov 1938); Oberfeldarzt (01 Nov 1939); Oberstarzt (01 Apr 1942); Generalarzt (30 Jan 1945)

Career:
Entered the Army as a One Year Volunteer in the 113th Infantry-Regiment (01 Apr 1898-30 Sep 1898)
Discharged to the Reserve (30 Sep 1898)
Medical-Studies at the Universities Leipzig, Würzburg and Kiel (01 Oct 1898-31 Mar 1904)
Entered Naval Service as a One Year Volunteer Marinearzt in Kiel (01 Apr 1904-10 Sep 1904)
Training as Marinearzt (11 Sep 1904-11 Jul 1905)
Auxiliary-Medic on the Liner 'Preußen' (12 Jul 1905-30 Sep 1905)
Ship-Medic on the a Torpedo-Boat (01 Oct 1905-09 Dec 1905)
Ship-Medic on the Liner 'Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm' (14 Dec 1905-31 Mar 1907)
Ship-Medic on the Liner 'Zähringen' (01 Apr 1907-30 Sep 1907)
Placed to Disposal and Departed to Tsingtau (01 Oct 1907-01 Dec 1907)
Medic at Hospital Tsingtau (02 Dec 1907-07 Jun 1909)
Battalion-Medic of the III. Sea-Battalion, Tsingtau (08 Jun 1909-18 Feb 1910)
District-Medic Litsum (19 Feb 1910-20 May 1910)
Ship-Medic on the Cannon-Boat 'Iltis' (26 May 1910-21 May 1911)
Returned Home and Placed to Disposal (22 May 1911-24 Sep 1911)
Ships-Medic on the Small Cruiser 'Dresden' (25 Sep 1911-25 Sep 1912)
Medic at the Surgical Department of the Eppendorfer Infirmary, Hamburg (0-1 Oct 1912-31 Jul 1914)
Ships-Medic on the Heavy Cruiser 'Prinz Heinrich' (05 Aug 1914-31 Aug 1914)
Chief Surgeon at the Naval-Field-Hospital 4 (Flaunders) (04 Sep 1914-27 Sep 1916)
Ships-Medic on the Battle-Cruiser 'Moltke' (28 Sep 1916-24 Jul 1917)
Senior-Medic of the Surgical Department of the Naval-Hospital Wilhelmshaven (25 Jul 1917-30 Sep 1919)
At the Welfare-Hospital Kiel (01 Oct 1919-28 Nov 1919) Retired (28 Nov 1919)
Supplemental-Officer-Aspirant (Luftwaffe) and Officer to with Special Duties (01 Aug 1938-31 Oct 1938)
Entered Luftwaffe Service as a Supplemental-Officer and Department-Medic of Infirmary-Department II of Luftwaffe-Hospital 4/XI, Wismar (01 Nov 1938-31 Dec 1940)
Chief-Medic of Luftwaffe-Hospital 4/XI, Wismar (01 Jan 1941-1945)

Decorations & Awards:
1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. und I.Klasse
Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. und I.Klasse mit Schwertern
Deutsches Reiterabzeichen

Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=2351871#p2351871
https://www.oocities.org/~orion47/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/Sanitatsoffizier/BENGSCH_OTTO.html

Mounted SS Skanderberg Medical Officer during Operation Daredevil

 

SS-Obersturmbannführer Robert Schrader, IVb (Ärzte / Sanitätsdienst) of 21. SS Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Skanderbeg" (albanische Nr. 1), in the area of operation of the combat groups SS-Freiwilligen-Gebrigsjäger-Regiment 14 "Skanderbeg" east of Andrijevica (Sučeska), Balkan. The picture was taken during Unternehmen "Draufgänger" (Operation Daredevil), 22 July 1944.

Source :
ECPAD Archives
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2980188468934265&set=gm.1031226890705404

SS-Feldlazarett 504 Photo Album

One of the more remarkable discoveries during the last decade was the photo album of "Nurse Ida," a Norwegian nurse who served as a Red Cross volunteer in SS Field Hospital (Feldlazarett) 104/504. Her photo album, portions of which are reproduced here courtesy of the Kriegsbilder.net archive, are amazing, showing Ida and her fellow nurses at work and at leisure while serving with the corps' field hospital in Belarus, Poland and Hungary, where Gille's corps arrived at the end of December 1944. She began her service as a voluntary Red Cross Nurse on 5 August 1943 with the SS Hospital in Minsk until 28 June 1944 before being transferred to the IV SS Panzer Corps' field hospital on 8 November 1944. Shown in this selection (there are many more on the website), are some of the Waffen-SS medical personnel with whom she worked alongside. Usually, up to a dozen civilian Red Cross nurses were attached to each field hospital, with the number varying from unit to unit.  An amazing find that illustrates that there were women who also served in Gille's corps during the war.

 

The official Photo of Nurse Ida in her German Red Cross "Verwendungs" identity book.

A photo of two of her fellow nurses and two patients in the SS field hospital 504 west of Modlin, Poland.

During the rail journey from Modlin to Komorn (Komarno) in Hungary, the Red Cross nurses had to ride in unheated rail cars like most everyoneelse.

This depicts the loading of SS Feldlaz. 504, most likely carried out in Modlin during the last week of December 1944.

Another photo of SS medical personnel from SS-FeldLaz. 504.

In this photo, taken either in Modlin in December 1944 or in Hungary between January and March 1945, show a staff car of SS-Lazarett 504,, stenciled in black letters on the left front fender.

One of the hospital's medical officers eating a meal in the cab of a staff car, most likely photographed by Nurse Ida in late December 1944 in Hungary when the IV SS Panzer Corps was moved from Poland to Hungary for the relief of Budapest.



One of the SS hospital's medical personnel. The leather strap slung over his shoulder is not for a submachine gun, but for Sister Ida's camera! This was most likely taken in eastern Austria in the spring of 1945, shortly before the war's end.



The same officer, but in this photo the tactical symbol of SS-Feldlaz. 504 can be seen on the left rear passenger door.



An alpine view. This was most like taken between the end of March/April 1945 when the IV SS Pz.Korps was withdrawing into the Styrian Alps east of Graz, Austria.



Portions of the staff, including doctros, of SS-Feldlaz. 504



Sister Ida with one of her favorite doctors (unnamed) posing in the front door of their hospital somewhere in Poland or Hungary.



Additional photos of the Nurse corps of SS-Feldlaz. 504, apparently shortly after arriving in Hungary.



Some of the nurses posting with a few of their Waffen-SS patients, location unknown.



A photo of an unknown SS unit "moving up to the front" was taken near Minsk in late 1943/early 1944 before Nurse Ida was transferred to SS-Feldlaz. 504.



Another image of senior SS medical personnel loading their equipment on a train, most likely taken by Nurse Ida in the area west of Modlin where SS-Feldlaz. 504 was located.



Additional medical personnel shown here. Interestingly, the highly decorated soldier in the center, who bears no rank, wears the insignia on his right jacket collar of the infamous Dirlewanger Brigade. This photo was taken near Minsk, where Dirlewanger's unit was operating at the time, so he could be one of the unit's doctors, sharing the same medical facility as other SS units.

Source :
"From the Realm of the Dying Sun" by Douglas E. Nash., Sr.
https://www.facebook.com/Latewareasternfront/posts/121003643159742?__cft__[0]=AZULNSrDCB4QyaOtdNOprVf4eCIP_kwOqPhZlo2Efx5_RQhE_A8LBTxleKB7a3aCIobCkfDlTZdDGDaCuqsBG_QpQqB4N9x9SG1fdnhDlhB09n2KP0_qlMjI7NLtV8fd4cQjkC1zUmYOTusceK8KQfiv&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Medical Generals of the Wehrmacht

This picture was taken in Tarnopol, and shows the medical generals of the Wehrmacht: The one at left is Generalstabsarzt Dr.med. Hans Wagner, while the general in the center is Generaloberstabsarzt Prof.Dr.med. Siegfried Handloser

Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66810&p=2222546&hilit=hans+wagner#p2222546
https://jp-militaria.de/epages/c8160b69-739a-486c-b016-ca431d292e5b.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/c8160b69-739a-486c-b016-ca431d292e5b/Products/8714

German POWs Reaction to Holocaust Film

The immediate reaction of German Prisoners of war upon being forced by the US Army to watch to the uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps, 1945. After the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, films of the atrocities of the Holocaust were shown to the prisoners, which engendered shock, anger, and disbelief; amazed and disbelieving prisoners nicknamed them knocken films (films of bones). After compulsory viewing of an atrocity film, 1,000 prisoners at Camp Butner dramatically burned their German uniforms while a few prisoners even volunteered to fight in the war against Japan (the idea however was dropped by the American military). This forced process itself was part of the Allied policy of postwar denazification, meant to purge Germany of the remnants of Nazi rule and rebuild its civil society, infrastructure, and economy.

Source :
https://www.checkhookboxing.com/index.php?threads/eerie-creepy-photos-updated-the-story-behind-the-japanese-samurai-sword-assassination-photo.40853/page-96
http://www.historyinorbit.com/rare-historic-photos-n/13

Gebirgsjäger Medical Stretcher Bearers

Poland 1939: Two Gebirgsjäger medical stretcher bearers are seen moving an injured comrade to one of the hastily erected field hospitals in the rear. An officer overlooks the procedure, possibly wearing the Gebirgs wind jacket.

Source :
Book "Hitler's Mountain Troops 1939-1945" by Ian Baxter

German Soldiers and Wounded British POW After St. Nazaire Raid

 German soldiers place wounded British POWs on the bed of a truck to be taken to a medical dressing station following the Saint-Nazaire Raid. The raid (codename: Operation Chariot) was a successful British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Louis Joubert Lock at Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France. The operation was undertaken by the British Royal Navy and British Commandos under the auspices of Combined Operations Headquarters. Saint-Nazaire was targeted because the loss of its dry dock would force any large German warship in need of repairs, to return to home waters rather than having a safe haven available on the Atlantic coast. Although the operation was a British success, 169 British soldiers were killed and 215 became POWs. Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France. 28 March 1942.

Source :
http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/131847694190/german-soldiers-place-wounded-british-pows-on-the

SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Egon Skalka

SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Egon Skalka, chief medical officer of the Hohenstaufen Division, photographed in early 1945. Skalka was instrumental in arranging the truce to evacuate wounded from the Oosterbeek pocket to hospitals in Arnhem in September 1944, which resulted in the lives of many wounded British paratroopers being saved.

Source :
http://5sswiking.tumblr.com/post/142916927032/ss-sturmbannf%C3%BChrer-dr-egon-skalka-chief-medical