Hej
Förra året lärde jag känna en person vars morfar var Gunnar Eklöf.
Han var ju ss officerare..eller plutonchef i ss-divisionen Nordland.
Det visste ni någ redan.
Jag frågade honom om gunnar klarade sig eller vad som hände med honom, han visste inte å ingen i släkten heller.
Vet någon hur han dog eller vad som hände med honom? skulle vara kul å få säga vad som hände honom för dessa som stod han nära.
Tacksam för alla svar!
MVH//Didde
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EKLÖF, Erik Gunnar
SS-Untersturmführer
Born:- 22 December 1922 in Ragunda, Sweden.
Fate:- Deceased
History:- He left Sweden for Germany in August 1941 and joined the Waffen-SS on 20 August 1941. After completing basic training he was assigned to the 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking". In 1943 he was sent to SS-Junkerschule "Tölz" and graduated with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer on 1 September 1943. Afterwards he was posted to the III. SS-Pz-Korps (germanische).
Then on 20 May 1944 he went into the SS-Panzer-Aufkl.-Abt. 11 of the 11. Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland", where many Swedish volunteers were grouped. He was wounded in action while serving with this unit on 18 July 1944. apparently the Swedish Recce party was caught in an ambush near Kunighisky in Lithuania and its' SPW was hit by anti-tank fire and its' driver SS-Rottenführer Karl-erik Persson was killed.
Eklöf was subsequently awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and after recovering from his wounding was posted to the SS-Hauptamt in Berlin where he served as liaison officer to the Swedish SS volunteers. During his stint in Berlin he shot and killed fellow Swedish SS comrade Sven Rydén in an argument over a woman. For this crime he was imprisoned, but shortly released to serve in SS-Jagdverband "Nordwest" for the last months of the war.
It has also been stated that he stayed in Berlin posted to the SS-Hauptamt in his capacity as liaison officer to the Swedish volunteers, until the capitulation in 1945. When the city fell he was able to make good his escape and avoid being taken prisoner by the Russians. He returned to Sweden in the summer of 1945. (Side Note: He was arrested in 1943 on leave, while on walking down the mainstreet in Luleå, norethern Sweden, by the local police, for wearing his Waffen-SS uniform)
(Från Axis Biographical research)
MVH/Richard
SS-Untersturmführer
Born:- 22 December 1922 in Ragunda, Sweden.
Fate:- Deceased
History:- He left Sweden for Germany in August 1941 and joined the Waffen-SS on 20 August 1941. After completing basic training he was assigned to the 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking". In 1943 he was sent to SS-Junkerschule "Tölz" and graduated with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer on 1 September 1943. Afterwards he was posted to the III. SS-Pz-Korps (germanische).
Then on 20 May 1944 he went into the SS-Panzer-Aufkl.-Abt. 11 of the 11. Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland", where many Swedish volunteers were grouped. He was wounded in action while serving with this unit on 18 July 1944. apparently the Swedish Recce party was caught in an ambush near Kunighisky in Lithuania and its' SPW was hit by anti-tank fire and its' driver SS-Rottenführer Karl-erik Persson was killed.
Eklöf was subsequently awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and after recovering from his wounding was posted to the SS-Hauptamt in Berlin where he served as liaison officer to the Swedish SS volunteers. During his stint in Berlin he shot and killed fellow Swedish SS comrade Sven Rydén in an argument over a woman. For this crime he was imprisoned, but shortly released to serve in SS-Jagdverband "Nordwest" for the last months of the war.
It has also been stated that he stayed in Berlin posted to the SS-Hauptamt in his capacity as liaison officer to the Swedish volunteers, until the capitulation in 1945. When the city fell he was able to make good his escape and avoid being taken prisoner by the Russians. He returned to Sweden in the summer of 1945. (Side Note: He was arrested in 1943 on leave, while on walking down the mainstreet in Luleå, norethern Sweden, by the local police, for wearing his Waffen-SS uniform)
(Från Axis Biographical research)
MVH/Richard
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Wirth M16811
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- Inlägg: 11
- Blev medlem: 4 januari 2005, 01:20
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