Hello Juergen, Thank you for the kind reply. Yes, the only hope that he was aboard the Tirpitz is his assignment to a Combat Group (31.07.1944 – 13.12.1944 Kampfgruppe (ohne nähere Angaben). Were there "Kampfgruppe" on board a Schlachtshiff? Everyone in the family talks about his ordeal in the water, saying his clothes had to be cut off because everything was frozen. The only di
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My father-in-law served in the German Navy during WWII. He was supposedly on the Tirpitz when she was sunk on 12 November 1944 and he also said he missed his turn on a U-boat that never returned. His personnel files do not reflect either, as far as I can tell. Can someone help with the translation of his War record? I have learned some of the words but the "stammabteilung" always tr
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