Otto Funk; wounded near Cheux on June 26 1944 but continued to fight until capitulation. On May 8 1945, the survivors of 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend surrendered to the U.S. 65th Infantry Division, 7th Army, near Enns in Austria. In a final act of defiance, the division refused to drape their vehicles with white flags, as the Americans had ordered.
Funk survived the war and is still alive in 2011.
Otto Funk; wounded near Cheux on June 26 1944 but continued to fight until capitulation. On May 8 1945, the survivors of...