SS - GERMANIA Wedding

**Scout** · 12-26-2013, 08:38 PM

Loads of history and tragic events - told and untold - branches out from a few simple pics.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 12-26-2013 08:38 PM

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**big ned** · 12-26-2013, 08:46 PM

by Woolgar

Found details on his brother who sadly didn't survive the war
Nachname(Last Name): Nürge
Vorname(First Name): Heinrich
Dienstgrad(grade): Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum(DOB): 09.07.1910
Geburtsort(birthplace): Jeinsen
Todes-/Vermisstendatum(death/missing):18.10.1944
Todes-/Vermisstenort(area): Makejewka,KGL 280

Nick

I wonder if his brother is in the photo's you have? There is a chap who looks very much like the groom and is also about the right age. I suppose he could have been on leave and was killed just over a month later when back with his unit, who knows??

**Woolgar** · 12-26-2013, 08:54 PM

Edit*

I am talking rubbish !!!

Nick

**HPL2008** · 12-26-2013, 09:02 PM

by big ned

I wonder if his brother is in the photo's you have? There is a chap who looks very much like the groom and is also about the right age. I suppose he could have been on leave and was killed just over a month later when back with his unit, who knows??

by Woolgar

Yes Ned a strong possibility looking at the photo of the guy you refer to! That would have been even more tragic to fall in the last few months of the war

No; we can rule out that Heinrich is in the wedding photographs, as he was already dead by then:

Erich Nürge and Anni Schmidt announced their engagement on 9 September 1944 (that's the first card in post # 1) and got married on 20 January 1945 (the second card in post # 1).

According to Nick's data, Heinrich Nürge died in a Soviet POW camp [KGL = Kriegsgefangenenlager] on 18 October 1944.

(On a side note, if his rank was Unteroffizier, he was with the Heer or Luftwaffe, whereas the soldiers in the wedding photos are members of the Waffen-SS. Still, like I said, he could not possibly be in these photographs anyway.)