My great-grandfather served in the German army during WW2. I know from my grandmother that he never spoke of the war and he passed away relatively early after the war.
However, I have found a picture of him from around 1943 in a book at my grandma's home. I don't want to upload it here because of privacy reasons, but the picture depicts him wearing a uniform as well as a peaked cap and a sabre. There are no SS signs or other insignia. My grandma told me he burried the uniform after WW2. He was captured around Danzig/Gdánsk on a pensinsula and only got out of POW camp in 1956/57. He was imprisoned in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
My grandma says all she knows is that he was in the army already pre-Hitler, and that during the war he was used in the Netherlands as a liaison guy and then he was sent to the eastern front.
I don't know a lot about the Wehrmacht outside of the average German's knowledge that they committed a boat load of atrocities, so I would be very glad if you could help me make a guess what position he likely had and therefore what very bad events he was involved in (especially considering his relatively long imprisonment).
No, insignia at all? Or just no SS ones? Is the uniform black or grey? we kinda need more info to give you anything more than wild guesses.
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You can get his military biography from the Deutsche Dienststelle Wehrmachtauskunftstelle in Berlin. Granted the papers weren't destroyed.