Wehrpass NCO Propaganda-Kompanie 612 Westwall 1940

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Josef Buchner, NCO (Unteroffizier) WW1 Infantry WW2 propaganda unit

Wehrpass, 6.11.37. One staple of the cover is loose.

Entitled to: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (WW1).

Salesman born 1897 in Kirrweiler. WW1 Infantry service as NCO Apr.16-Feb.19. In WW2 he served: Mar.-Apr.40 with Propaganda-Kompanie (mot) 612, a motorized propaganda unit active under Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) at that moment based at the Westwall preparing for the invasion in France. This propaganda unit was responsible for making the „Westwall-Boten“, a newspaper for soldiers based at the Westwall. Apr.40 he was at the Propaganda-Ersatzkompanie in Potsdam where he was discharged because he was needed elsewhere („UK-Stellung“). Not called-up again in WW2.