🇩🇪 All were grandsons of Kaiser Wilhelm II and direct male-line descendants of King George III of the United Kingdom.
The eldest (middle), Leutnant Ernst August Prinz von Hannover served in the 158th Reconnaissance Battalion, 58th Infantry Division, 4th Panzer Group and later became a staff officer under General Erich Hoepner. He was later heavily wounded in Kharkov, 1943 but later dismissed in accordance with the “Princes’ Decree”.
🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Hans Waldemar Lindén was the first Swede to enlist in the Waffen-SS. He served in division Wiking and died on the Eastern Front on 30 December 1941. He was posthumously awarded the Iron Cross Second Class at the age of 19.
Luftwaffe Captain and fighter ace Helmut Wick describes shooting down five Spitfire aircraft during a single engagement in the Battle of Britain, October 6th, 1940.
🇩🇪 All were grandsons of Kaiser Wilhelm II and direct male-line descendants of King George III of the United Kingdom.
The eldest (middle), Leutnant Ernst August Prinz von Hannover served in the 158th Reconnaissance Battalion, 58th Infantry Division, 4th Panzer Group and later became a staff officer under General Erich Hoepner. He was later heavily wounded in Kharkov, 1943 but later dismissed in accordance with the “Princes’ Decree”.
Luftwaffe Captain and fighter ace Helmut Wick describes shooting down five Spitfire aircraft during a single engagement in the Battle of Britain, October 6th, 1940.
🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Hans Waldemar Lindén was the first Swede to enlist in the Waffen-SS. He served in division Wiking and died on the Eastern Front on 30 December 1941. He was posthumously awarded the Iron Cross Second Class at the age of 19.
Joint ceremony of the new Latvian and Estonian armies, in which the pastor salutes the monument to those who fell in the fight against Bolshevism with his arm raised.
