Signature of Wehrmacht Heer KC Recipient 'Wolf Ewert'

In a very good condition a original signature on a postwar postcard of Wolf Ewert.

Wolf Ewert was the son of a Prussian officer; starting at age 11 he attended a military boarding school. He experienced the German defeat in the First World War and the following unrest as traumatic. In 1924, aged nearly 19, he joined the Reichswehr, serving in an infantry regiment in Northern Germany. He became an officer in 1929.

He participated in the final days of the invasion of France. The first time he led a battalion was during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

His initial contact with partisan warfare was likewise in the east – Ewert was a witness to the Wehrmacht’s brutal retaliation measures in Charkov in 1941. After being wounded in close combat and subsequent recuperation, he took over Grenadier Regiment 274 of the 94th Infantry Division, deployed in Italy.

After heavy fighting, in May 1944 the regiment withdrew to Lake Trasimeno and Arezzo. In mid-July 1944, mass shootings took place in Ewert’s sector – in San Polo, San Severo, and the Badicroce farmstead near Arezzo. In 1967, the Gießen prosecutors opened an investigation of Ewert and other members of his regiment on account of the massacre at San Polo. The proceedings were terminated in 1972.

Code: 82019