Soldbuch from 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division

Hello,

I recently picked up this soldbuch at a flea market near Mannheim Germany. It appears good to me except the first medical entry doesn't make sense. This soldier was inducted into the Waffen SS on November 1, 1943 but his first medical entry is for July 10, 1943.

Now take a look at the second entry. It is for the same date but in 1944. The release date for the second entry is also the same as the one for the first entry. Both of them are for shrapnel wounds.

Has anyone ever seen an entry entered wrong like this in a soldbuch? If a correction was made wouldn't a line be drawn through the first entry? I have seen lots of examples of soldiers writing the wrong year on feldpost letters before.

I have included a couple of scans below but have alot more posted at:


More scans here!

Take care,
Jason

[Angel Farré]

I can't imagine what happen with the first entry, but the following are for the same wound, it marks transfers from hospital to hospital. Only explanation for the first entry is that he suffered a wound being part of the HJ, the RAD or in prior service in the WH until his transfer to the Waffen SS. Obviously the second wound was severe enough to take him away from service for the rest of the war. I'll take a look to the other pages and try to give you a solution for this mistery, I have seen Soldbuchs with awards prior his inductment due service in frontline with the RAD or in the Homeland with the HJ, usually KVK and Wound Badges.

Cheers

Angel

[Gary T]

The wound for the 10.7.43 is looks like it is recorded as code 31c. This is not shrapnel but burns as a rsult of enemy action - maybe firefighting after allied air raids?
A list of medical codes acan be found here

I would be very interested to find out more about this. The link to the scans is dead, however, I found the address originally through a google-search of the name in it- Scharnetzki.

It happens to be a name I share.

I don't know much about my family background/history... Basically, the War disrupted and dislocated almost everyone; a lot of records were destroyed.

I would love to find out more... Even if someone in my family might not have been a very nice person, I would like to know what they did and who they were.