A battle damaged German helmet was taken from the grave of a killed German soldier in the Paris region in 1944, and brought back to the USA as a war souvenir by an American officer . This video analyses the bullet damage and the various caracteristics of the helmet, then describes the numerous steps that were taken to try to research its original owner, Obergefreiter Kurt Günther, of Flak Regiment 59. Kurt Günter was killed by a gunshot wound to the head (that also made entrance and exit holes in his helmet) during the insurrection of Paris by the French Resistance in August 1944. At the time, the German army refered to the Resistants as "terrorists" and Günther's official cause of death in the period documentation is therefore "shot by the terrorists".
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Obergefreiter Kurt Günther Reich 15.06.1912 Löwenberg / Lwówek Śląski, gefallen 20.08.1944 in Vaucresson. Flak Regiment 59. Magdalene Günther, Meta, Charlotte, Frieda Günther.
Edgar Günther geboren 7.3.1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Horst Wolfgang Günther geboren 11.7.1938 Löwenberg Köln
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