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Hallo.
My grandfather SS strm. Leif Hauff Kristiansen was a Norwegian SS Volunteer during the 2ww and served in "Den Norske Legion 3.komp" around Leningrad and later in the"14.SS-Pz.Gr.Rgt 23 NORGE."
In may 1945 he was fighting in Berlin, and the 5.may he was taken as war-prisoner by the Russians. From the Russian map RGVA: *Delo U3- 1993111 we can read that he died in Hospital 5849 in juli 1945 of dystrofi.
We have found out that hospital 5849 was in Brest Litowsk in Belarus, - can anybody confirm this?
Sinse my grandfather was a SS soldier the Russians used to take them direktly to Gulag-camps farther into Russia, - but maybee my grandfather was vounded and become too seek and was left in the hospital in Brest and died there after a month. Any who has same idea about this?
This summer my parents and I visited Brest for find out more about this hospital, and maybee find the place he was buryed. But it was very difficult to locate the place. We did not find the hospital. but we find a area outside the town with a lot of unmarked graves. Some of the graves were opened, and the area was in a forest. The local people told us this was used for german soldiers who died in the early days of 2WW in fights around the Brest fortress. And later (after the war) used for people from the "arbaitslager Frankfurter, Kubriker und Lager Babinka" Also dead people from the war-hospital was berried here. We have the GPS koordinates of this place. Now-days the Belarus people are building houses above the graves.., that is a pity!
I there anybody who know more about german soldier cemetery in Brest from the year 1945 - 1946. Were do the Russians put the dead german soldiers.?
My grandfather SS strm. Leif Hauff Kristiansen was a Norwegian SS Volunteer during the 2ww and served in "Den Norske Legion 3.komp" around Leningrad and later in the"14.SS-Pz.Gr.Rgt 23 NORGE."
In may 1945 he was fighting in Berlin, and the 5.may he was taken as war-prisoner by the Russians. From the Russian map RGVA: *Delo U3- 1993111 we can read that he died in Hospital 5849 in juli 1945 of dystrofi.
We have found out that hospital 5849 was in Brest Litowsk in Belarus, - can anybody confirm this?
Sinse my grandfather was a SS soldier the Russians used to take them direktly to Gulag-camps farther into Russia, - but maybee my grandfather was vounded and become too seek and was left in the hospital in Brest and died there after a month. Any who has same idea about this?
This summer my parents and I visited Brest for find out more about this hospital, and maybee find the place he was buryed. But it was very difficult to locate the place. We did not find the hospital. but we find a area outside the town with a lot of unmarked graves. Some of the graves were opened, and the area was in a forest. The local people told us this was used for german soldiers who died in the early days of 2WW in fights around the Brest fortress. And later (after the war) used for people from the "arbaitslager Frankfurter, Kubriker und Lager Babinka" Also dead people from the war-hospital was berried here. We have the GPS koordinates of this place. Now-days the Belarus people are building houses above the graves.., that is a pity!
I there anybody who know more about german soldier cemetery in Brest from the year 1945 - 1946. Were do the Russians put the dead german soldiers.?