General der Panzertruppe Erwin Rommel (Kommandierender General Deutsches Afrikakorps) directs the movements of his force with Oberst Erwin Menny (Kommandeur 15.Schützen-Brigade / 15.Panzer-Division) in North Africa. The picture was taken before Menny received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (26 December 1941).
Generalleutnant Erwin Menny (right, Kommandeur 84. Infanterie-Division) with his staff officers inside a car with maps. The 84th Infantry Division, under 15th Army and Army Group B between May and July 1944, was used as part of the German defense against the Allied Operation Overlord, which began on 6 June 1944, beginning on 29 July. and was destroyed in the Falaise Pocket on 20 August 1944. General Menny himself was captured and became a POW until the end of the war. He received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes previously on 26 December 1941 as Oberst and Kommandeur 15.Schützen-Brigade / 15.Panzer-Division. This picture was taken in France in the summer of 1944 by Kriegsberichter Koll of PK KBZ Ob West (Propaganda-Kompanie Kriegsberichter-Zug Oberbefehlshaber West).
German high ranking officers as a prisoner-of-war at Camp Clinton, Mississippi, USA, October 1945. From left to right: Generalmajor Ernst Schnarrenberger (captured on 11 May 1943 in North Africa), Oberst i.G. Horst Egersdorff (captured on 8 May 1943 in North Africa), General der Panzertruppe Ludwig Crüwell (captured on 29 May 1942 in North Africa), Generalmajor Fritz Krause (captured on 9 May 1943 in North Africa), Generalleutnant Erwin Menny (captured on 21 August 1944 in France), General der Infanterie Ferdinand Neuling (captured on 18 August 1944 in France), Generalleutnant Curt Badinsky (captured on 20 August 1944 in France), Major Anton Sinkel (captured on 12 May 1943 in North Africa), and Generalmajor Detlef Bock von Wülfingen (captured on 8 September 1944 in Belgium).
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