Locating a WWII Army unit

Henry,

Here is information from a cemetery.

Waldfriedhof is a cemetery located above the "Römerweg" in the woods of "Föhrenwald". It includes individual graves and family graves, a military cemetery and the memorial in honor of the prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp who died in the Death March of 1945. Waldfriedhof was established in 1947 as a Jewish cemetery and later became a general cemetery when the old cemetery around St. Oswald Church was demolished and moved here to enlarge the central square of the village.

In April 1945, during the last days of the war, 8,000 prisoners were removed from Dachau and its sub-camps and forced to march to the Bavarian Alps. Some thought they would be part of a Red Cross prisoner exchange. Other prisoners thought the plan was to kill them out of sight of the rapidly advancing U.S. military. It is possible that the Nazis planned to use prisoners to build fortifications in the Tyrolean mountains for a defense of last resort. Whatever the reasons, the German guards forced a brutal pace and thousands of walkers died in a few days. Fortunately, the march never reached its final destination.

The Death March has passed directly through many towns near Dachau, including Allach, Pasing, Graefelfing, Planegg, Krailling, Gauting, Berg, Icking, Wolfratshausen, Geretsried, Bad Toelz, Waakirchen, Fuerstenfeldbruck and Gruenwald. Many walkers literally died at the front doors of citizens. There might have been a temptation to forget this terrible part of local history, but after much discussion and introspection, citizens chose another path.

Thanks,

Elliot Schneider

Do you have his first name?

Henry,

Looks like the 103rd Infantry Division had a camp near Seefeld, Austria in mid 1945. According to the order of battle and camps. This unit may have been part of that Army Division.

Elliot Schneider