03-29-2016, 08:27 AM
CtahhR Wrote:#2 Although reported KIA he may have fallen into enemy hands (dead or alive) and his Red Star taken as a trophy by a German who then went on to lose it in Prussia.
#3 A Soviet Comrade may have held on to his Red Star as a memento, until he lost it in Prussia.
My thoughts were similar, In Braniewo there was a big pocket in the beginning of 1945. Lots of Russians and Germans fight there.
I was wondering how German treat capture soviet orders ? Do they keep them as a souvenir, trophy ??? Any experience in that matter?
