"I once had a comrade". Photos of graves of German soldiers.

[TabsTabs1964]

Anyone who thinks that breaking through the Metaxas Line and opening a breach was an easy task is mistaken.
In April 1941, the Greeks and the British were awaiting the Italian and German assaults respectively.



The assault on the central sector of the Metaxas Line, from Bulgarian territory, was carried out by the 5th and 71st Infantry Divisions of the German XVIII Corps.



On the right flank of the German 5th Division's penetration, a few hundred meters from the Bulgarian border with Greece, is the small village of Promachon, marked with a yellow star on the map I have prepared.

The German 125th I.R. fought there. It paid its price, of course.

There, a few of his men fell and were buried there....

[TabsTabs1964]

In this peaceful cemetery they rest after the battle...







These comrades had better fortune, although they had to bury their fallen.

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And someone lost five good comrades, because he took the trouble to photograph their graves... Thanks to him we can read some of their names


O.Gfr Ad Kronser




Schtz Josef Göb




Schuzt Ercard? Bolz




Gfr. Robert Jakob




Gfr. Jak? Hoffmman



Photographs of the Gefreiter Ludwig Ettmüller. From August 1940, then in the 2nd Group of the 1st Platoon of the 4th (MG)/ Infantry Regiment 125. With this unit, he was part of the army in the Balkan campaign in spring 1941. Baptism of fire in the battle for Promachon, Greece, in early April 1941.

[TabsTabs1964]

I found a couple more images and some additional information....





Members of the 125. Infanterie Regiment around the grave of Knights Cross holder Oberleutnant Otto Schulz, commander of the 3. Kompanie. Schulz was wounded south of Promachon on the first day of the assault against the Usita Fortress in the Rupel Pass. He was later killed during a Greek counterattack with a shot in the head and had his Ritterkreuz taken. The photo was taken in one of the three graveyards of Promachon, close to the Greek-Bulgarian border. The older man on the left of the cross resembles the Commanding Officer of the II/125, Major Karl Ens, later Oberst, who was also awarded the Knights Cross in May 1941. Schulz' remains are now buried in the German cemetary of Marino Pole, Bulgaria.

[BlackCat1982]

Gefreiter Robert Edmund Jakob

Geburtsdatum
13.11.1917

Geburtsort
Hemmersdorf

Todes-/Vermisstendatum
06.04.1941

Death location: südl.Promachon

His remains have not been interred in a Volksbund cemetery. Perhaps he still lies where he was laid in 1941.

[TabsTabs1964]

Hi friends. I just found this list of IR 125 soldiers buried in this cemetery.

Soldatenfriedhof Promachon:

Liste IR 125:
Hofmann Jakob Grab 19 - Fifth Photo
Buschbacher Johann Grab 20
Botz Ewald Grab 21 - Third Photo
Kronser Adolf Grab 22 - First Photo
Schwarz Anton Grab 23
Jakob Robert Grab 24 - Fourth Photo
Messner Reinhold Grab 25
Gross Rudolf Grab 26
Bohn Peter Grab 27
Gödel Richard Grab 28
Becker Artur Grab 29
Göb Josef Grab 30 - Second Photo
Marner Paul Grab 32
Mies Gottfried Grab 33
Kiefer Wilhelm Grab 35
Rodenbüsch Clemens Grab 36
Wickel Georg Grab 37
Höhn Friedrich Grab 42
Weisel Vinzenz Grab 43
Kugler Karl Grab 44
Salm Wilhelm Grab 45
Göbbels Josef Grab 46
Klingele Julius Grab 47
Schulz Otto-Ferdinand Grab 48
Schmitt Heinrich Grab 49
Schneider Josef Grab 50
Stutzig Rudolf Grab 51
Glöckner Rudolf Grab 52
Grossmann Bernhard Grab 53
Roth Karl Grab 54
Wendt Franz Grab 55
Schnabel Hans Grab 56
Zorn Peter Grab 57
Dernbecher Philipp Grab 58
Fuhr Walter Grab 60
Comtesse Wilhelm Grab 61
Rexter Albert Grab 62
Schmitt Alfons Grab 63
Waldmann Edgar Grab 65
Daheim Johann Grab 66
Weissbrod Erich Grab 67
Johann Alwin Grab 68
Kaiser Franz Grab 69
Heinzel Friedrich Grab 70
Marmitt Jakob Grab 71
Kirchner Erich Grab 72