The Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1. Hermann Göring was a German elite Luftwaffe armoured division. The HG saw action in France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy and on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Hermann Göring, the unit's namesake
The counterattack of Italian and German forces on the Gela beachhead on 11 July 1943.
Major Walter Gericke, commander of the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 11 (Fsch.Jäg.Rgt. 11, part of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division), with his paratroopers in an Italian village with captured Italian armour in the background, 11 September 1943. Gericke commanded a company in the Fallschirmschützen-Bataillon of the Regiment "General Göring".
The works of art packed in wooden boxes are loaded onto a truck.
Wilhelm Schmalz
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Wilhelm Schmalz was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Schmalz surrendered to American troop
