Johann Bischa

Rottenfuehrer Johann Bischa, 4th Kompanie, Nachrichtentruppen, 3rd Panzer Army, former enlisted soldier with 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, III SS Panzer Korp.

Likely to have been in the signals unit due to being multilingual, and needing to speak German, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian or Russian to communicate with combined Axis forces on the Eastern Front. Timisoara being in the Banat Region of Central Europe and having a sizeable population of Ethnic Germans, coming under the Volksdeutsche. The 3rd Panzer Army surrendered 300,000 soldiers to the British at Mecklenburg 3/5/1945.

German POW A735 731 from Little Carlton, POW Hostel 58, Bathley Lane Farm, Little Carlton, killed when his cycle collided with a lorry on the Great North Road, South Muskham. Number 58 Hostel came under the administration of Nether Headon 58 POW Camp, Retford.

Buried Retford East, Cemetery, before being exhumed and moved to the German Military Cemetery at Cannock Chase during the 1960s.

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