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2 unusual facts about Willi Hein


Willi Hein

he gathered two hastily repaired Sturmgeschütz and 25 Grenadiers and launched a counterattack which resulted in the destruction of three T-34 tanks, fifteen anti-tank guns and taking 200 prisoners.

In September 1944 Hein was given command of the I.Battalion, 5th SS Panzer Regiment, shortly afterward on 5 January 1945 Hein was severely wounded in his lower leg in the fighting for Budapest and spent the rest of the war in hospital at Bad Aussee in Austria.



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