10 MEI 1940 operation niwi Duitse aanval

[MEI 1940]

Ik doe opzoekingen naar de aanval met 96 Duitse vliegtuigen Fi156 op Nivses en Witry
bemand met Duitse soldaten van de 1Infanterie Regiment Grossdeutschland
Wie kan me helpen de Duitse verliezen op te zoeken waar liggen ze bergaven te LOMMEL of RECOGNE?
Dank u bij voorbaat

[Ruimteaapje]

Welke bronnen heb je zelf over deze aanval? Uit het artikel over dit regiment op Feldgrau blijkt dat het derde bataljon betrokken was bij deze aanval

In the months leading up to War, while the rest of the Wehrmacht marched into The Saarland, Austria and Czechoslovakia, the men of Wach Regiment Berlin marched up and down Unter den Linden Strasse every Sunday. However they were not to stay out of the front lines for long.

In the first week of 1939, Hitler ordered that the Wach Regiment be renamed Infanterie Regiment Großdeutschland. The unit was now to have a permanent cadre, and unlike other regiments of the Heer (which were raised from a particular region), the recruits of the Großdeutschland were to be drawn from across the nation. The unit was officially activated on 14 June 1939, and the occasion was marked by a parade through the streets of the capital.

The regiment was being reorganised in September 1939, and did not take part in Fall Weiss, a fact that dented the pride of the regiment which bore the name of the nation on their sleeves. However, in May 1940, the Regiment was attached to Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von Kleist’s Panzergruppe Kleist and saw combat from the beginning of Fall Gelb, the invasion of the west, on 10 May 1940.

On the first day of the invasion, the majority of the Großdeutschland regiment was attached to the 10th Panzer Division and engaged fighting its way through Luxembourg in an attempt to outflank southern Belgian fortifications. Meanwhile, III. Battalion was involved in an airborne attack further north in Belgium. The regiment was then involved in the successful crossing of the Meuse river. Near the town of Stonne, the regiment was involved in heavy fighting with French armoured forces, and acquitted itself well.

The regiment then marched north towards Dunkirk, and was involved in defeating the British counterattack at Arras. Großdeutschland was then involved in holding the Dunkirk pocket, before being transferred south to join the attack across the Seine. The French surrender found the regiment in Lyon. After a stopover in Paris to take part in the German victory parade, the regiment was then sent north to Celsace in preparation for Operation Seelöwe. After Seelöwe was called off, the regiment was moved to the South of France in preparation for Operation Felix, the planned invasion of Gibraltar.

Ik adviseer je contact op te nemen met het Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg over de Kriegstagebücher van Regiment Großdeutschland uit die tijd. Als die nog bestaan vind je daarin gevechtsverslagen en gegevens over de originele verliezenlijsten.

[NIWI]

Ik doe opzoekingen naar de aanval met 96 Duitse vliegtuigen Fi156 op Nivses en Witry
bemand met Duitse soldaten van de 1Infanterie Regiment Grossdeutschland
Wie kan me helpen de Duitse verliezen op te zoeken waar liggen ze bergaven te LOMMEL of RECOGNE?
Dank u bij voorbaat

[NIWI]

Ik doe opzoekingen naar de aanval met 96 Duitse vliegtuigen Fi156 op Nivses en Witry
bemand met Duitse soldaten van de 1Infanterie Regiment Grossdeutschland
Wie kan me helpen de Duitse verliezen op te zoeken waar liggen ze bergaven te LOMMEL of RECOGNE?
Dank u bij voorbaat

Wie kan me helpen aan meer persoonlijke gegvens of foto'svan de leidende Duitse officieren IIIbat Garki 10 Comp v.Harder- 11Comp.Krüger