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Wota, Kurt

Date of birth:
May 19th, 1903 (Stolp/Pommerania, Germany)
Date of death:
1943 (POW camp at Yelabuga/Tatarstan, Soviet Union)
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Kurt Wota was captured at stalingrad and died early 1943 in the POW camp at Yelabuga in the Tatarstan republic near the river Kama.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Major
Unit:
I. / Panzergrenadier-Regiment 79
Awarded on:
August 29th, 1942
Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Sources

  • Photo: Family
  • - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
    - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X

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