Wilhelm Küllertz
Version française
Les souvenirs de guerre de Wilhelm Küllertz
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre un
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre deux
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre trois
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre quatre: 24 août 1944, la fin du Z24 et du T24
Intermission – L’homme qui a sauvé le port de Bordeaux
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre cinq
Les souvenirs de guerre d’un marin allemand – Chapitre six
Intermission – Témoignage du fils d’un marin du Z24
Epilogue/Épilogue/Epilog (Willi Küllertz)
English version
Wilhelm Küllertz’s Journey Begins
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter One
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter Two
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter Three
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter Four: August 24, 1944, the end of the Z24 and T24
Intermission – The man who saved the port of Bordeaux
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter Five
A German Sailor’s Story – Chapter Six
Intermission – Personal account from the son of a sailor on Z24
Epilogue/Épilogue/Epilog (Willi Küllertz)
Deutsche Version
Wilhelm Küllertz’ Reise Startet
Erinnerungen an den Krieg eines Matrosen – Kapitel Erstes
Erinnerungen an den Krieg eines Matrosen – Kapitel Zwei
Erinnerungen an den Krieg eines Matrosen – Kapitel Drei
Pause – Der Mann, der den Hafen von Bordeaux gerettet hat.
Erinnerungen an den Krieg eines Matrosen – Fünftes Kapitel
Erinnerungen an den Krieg eines Matrosen – Sechs Kapitel
Pause – Zeugnis des Sohnes eines deutschen Matrosen von der Z24
Epilogue/Épilogue/Epilog (Willi Küllertz)
Alfred Kühn
Version française
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn commence…
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn commence ici… Chapitre 1
Photos de la collection d’Alfred Kühn
Photos de la collection d’Alfred Kühn – Visite de l’amiral Karl Dönitz
Cartes postales de la collection d’Alfred Kühn
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn – Chapitre 2
Le rapport de Georg Freiherr von Maltzahn
Dossier secret – Occupation allemande de la pointe de Grave – Gironde
Les souvenirs de guerre d’Alfred Kühn
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn – Chapitre 3
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn – Chapitre 4
De la collection personnelle d’Alfred Kühn
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn – Chapitre 5
Le voyage dans le passé d’Alfred Kühn – Chapitre 6
LE RÉCAPITULATIF DES DIFFÉRENTES COMMÉMORATIONS ET RETROUVAILLES DU TORPILLEUR T24
Collection Alfred Kühn – Rudolf Decker
Souvenir de la première rencontre après-guerre entre deux marins – Hans Offizier et Alfred Kuhn
1973 – Première rencontre des marins du T24
1974 – 30ème anniversaire du naufrage du destroyer canadien HMCS Athabaskan GO7
1977 – Commémoration au cimetière militaire de Berneuil
1979 – Première rencontre des marins du T24 pour une commémoration
L’HISTORIQUE DE LA CLOCHE DU TORPILLEUR T24
Collection Alfred Kühn – 20 septembre 1980
Collection Alfred Kühn – Amiral Hans MICHAHELLES
English version
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn Begins…
The Journey into the past of Alfred Kühn begins here…Chapter 1
Photos from the collection of Alfred Kühn
Postcards from the collection of Alfred Kühn
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn – Chapter 2
Georg Freiherr von Maltzahn’s report
Resume of 40th Anniversary Commemorative Escorted Tour to England and France
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn – Chapter 3
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn – Chapter 4
From the personal collection of Alfred Kühn
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn – Chapter 5
The Journey into the Past of Alfred Kühn – Chapter 6
A SUMMARY OF THE VARIOUS COMMEMORATIONS AND REUNIONS OF THE T24 TORPEDO BOAT
Collection Alfred Kühn – Rudolf Decker
Recollection of the first post-war meeting between two sailors – Hans Offizier and Alfred Kühn
1973 – First initiative for meetings of T24 sailors
1974 – 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Canadian destroyer HMCS Athabaskan GO7
1977 – Commemoration at the Berneuil military cemetery
1979 – First meeting of T24 sailors for a commemoration
Collection Alfred Kühn – 20 September 1980
Deutsche Version
Als Erinnerung in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn
Als Erinnerung in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn beginnt hier… Kapitel 1
Fotos aus der Sammlung von Alfred Kühn
Postkarten aus der Sammlung Alfred Kühn
Der Bericht des Georg Freiherr von Maltzahn
Die Reise in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn – Kapitel 2
Matrosenbericht über den Zerstörer Z24
Die Reise in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn – Kapitel 3
Die Reise in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn – Kapitel 4
Die Reise in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn – Kapitel 5
Die Reise in die Vergangenheit von Alfred Kühn – Kapitel 6
EINE ZUSAMMENFASSUNG DER VERSCHIEDENEN GEDENKFEIERN UND WIEDERVEREINIGUNGEN DES TORPEDOBOOTES T24
Collection Alfred Kühn – Rudolf Decker
1973 – Erstes Treffen der T24-Matrosen
1974 – 30. Jahrestag der Versenkung des kanadischen Zerstörers HMCS Athabaskan GO7
1977 – Gedenkfeier auf dem Soldatenfriedhof in Berneuil
1979 – Erstes Treffen der T24-Segler zu einer Gedenkveranstaltung
GESCHICHTE DER T24 TORPEDOGLOCKE
Sammlung Alfred Kühn – 20. September 1980
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Site où on mentionne le Battalion naval Narvik
https://christiebooks.co.uk/2018/05/anarchists-and-basques-in-the-second-world-war-3-the-medoc-front-cazafortines-2016-translated-by-paul-sharkey/
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And the same Asociacion notes that the units defending the fortified redoubts in Royan and Pointe de Grave: “… were manned by so-called FESTA (short for Festung ..) units … It fell to these to mount a defence (…) on 18 April 1945 when , having forced a passage through the outer rim, the Carnot Brigade arrived at the anti-tank ditch in Soulac-sur-mer.”
In the sector where the Libertad and Gernika battalions would operating, Captain Fuchs’s Soulac-sur-Mer-based Festa LXXX was dug in. South of it there was Captain Portzold’s battalion of fusiliers with its command post in Grayan and there was also the ‘Narvik’ naval battalion based in Saint-Vivien-de-Medoc.
The Asociación’s Facebook page also states that the latter were regarded by French historians as “elite troops always placed in the forward positions and who fought to the bitter end.” Their core was made up of the 536 survivors from the Z24 destroyer and T24 torpedo boat sunk on 24 August 1944 by Allied aircraft while setting out from Verdon-sur-Mer port. Those troops became the Narvik battalion which deployed two companies and a reserve unit made up of young sailors under the command of corvette Captain Birnbacher.
Birnbacher refused to surrender – even though he had had a message from his superior, Colonel Prahl, asking for an end to the fighting and he kept up dogged resistance from bunker S305 into which he had retreated with his men. In the end he surrendered after heroic fighting.
The commanders of the German garrison were, one after the other, General Fritz Meyer, a Russian Front veteran an knight of the iron cross with oak leaf cluster; when he took ill, he was replaced in November 1944 by Colonel Christian Sonntag who would die in March the following year when a grenade blew him up; his replacement was Colonel Prahl, commander of the 582nd Grenadiers Regiment (Jersey) who was in charge of the fortress right up until operations ceased.
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