Danish SS-Untersturmführer Ellef Henry Rasmussen

Danish SS-Untersturmführer Ellef Henry Rasmussen photographed in 1944 on the Narva front, Estonia, just after graduating from SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz officer training school. Rasmussen joined Waffen-SS in 1940 and served in the Wiking Division. In 1943 he was assigned to the newly formed 11. SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, where in the final phase of the war become the commander of II./SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark. He took part many important campaigns and battles: Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union; Operation Blau, the advance into the Caucasus; Battle of Narva and Battle of Berlin. Ellef Henry Rasmussen wrote his autobiography with the help of an historian in danish Troskab - Dansk SS-frivillig E.H. Rasmussens erindringer 1940-45. He passed away in 2016.

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