John Kettler Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 One of the CoC guys was trying to get a handle on how to depict the pseudo American force Skorzeny barely cobbled together, and it got me into research mode. Found some useful stuff, but this is probably the grand prize, since it's official intelligence, not a secondary or tertiary article. Anyone live near Kew?http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4552494 Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 (edited) Found this today, a CGSC Master's Thesis on the German Spec Ops Missions for the Battle of the Bulge. German Special Operations in the 1944 Ardennes Offensive Major Jeffrey Jarkowsky, USA U.S. Army Command and General Staff CollegeATTN: ATZL-SWD-GD Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-6900 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a284495.pdf Regarding certain questions via PM, I made a typo in OP. It was Einheit Stielau, not as written. Name derived as follows. Above, page The commando company, the "Einheit Stielau", named after their commander, SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Stielau,23 Footnote references Pallud, p. 64. Original cite says: Jean Paul Pallud, Battle of the Bulge: Then and Now, (London: Battle of Britain International Prints Limited, 1984). Axis History Forum couldn't produce first name of Einheit Stielau's CO, but there's some good stuff there otherwise. Nor could a bunch of other sites I visited. Weirdly, it's not that difficult to find first names for the other COs in PzBr 150.https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=227386 But I'm a persistent cuss, and a failed page cite on AHF led me to a searchable name. Am pretty certain this is the man. Believe the award records lagged his promotion. No other Stielau I could find under that name was even close in rank or SS.https://forum.axishistory.com/search.php?keywords=lothar+Stielau by Bernd R 23 Mar 2009, 13:22 Forum: Axis Biographical Research Topic: Awardholders / unit Replies: 2757 Views: 706312 Re: Awardholders / unit ... 30.03.1945, SS-Hauptsturmführer, Stab Solar Army Honor Roll Clasp (2) Stielau, Lothar Regards, John Kettler Edited October 3, 2018 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StieliAlpha Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 BTW, here is an article about Operation Greif and Einheit Stielau, incl some German eyewitness accounts. Written in German, but with a little help of Google you‘ll manage. https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-29191827.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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