Oblt Siegfried Heer from 3.(F)/Nacht - interrogation report

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Just found out an interrogation report of Oblt Siegfried Heer from 3.(F)/Nacht.
Downed by light AA artillery 17.Aug.43, bailed out 5 km NE Yedrovo (160 km SE Novgorod) and tried to escape (some part of the way he used the plane's inflatable boat). 21.Aug.43 he was captured near Yazhelbitsy (~50 km from Yedrovo). It was unknown to Heer but the rest of crew KIA during the crash of Do217K-1. The crew is listed correctly (as in GQM return) with addition that Lt Mayer wasn't a crewmember but trainee, it was his 2nd sortie.

The unit had 6 Do217K-1/E-4 (apart from downed Heer's plane), 2 Do17 and 1 liaison Go145. On 18.Aug.43 the unit had 10 crews (40 crewmembers), incl.6 officers.

Among other things, such as the life and career of Siegfried Heer, the list of officers of 3.(F)/Nacht (from the words of Heer) maybe interesting. All surnames in the document are written in cyrillic of course, it is the reverse transliteration.

Staka Oblt Benz or Bentz (Бенц), navigator, awards - DKG, EK1, EK2 [maybe Karl Bentz in Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries]
Deputy commander Oblt Harbich (Харбих), navigator, awards - EK1, EK2 [apparently Heinrich Herpich]
Oblt Glitz (Глитц), technical officer, pilot,awards - EK1, EK2 [no doubt Richard Glitz]
Oblt Eckert (Эккерт), photo officer, navigator, awards - DKG, EK1, EK2 [no doubt Rolf Eckert]
Lt Neugebauer (Нойгебауэр), navigator [can't find in Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries]
Lt Lorenz (Лоренц), navigator, club head [?]
Lt Nowak [Новак], ~general service officer (офицер по хозяйству)
Hptm Kalksmidt (Калькшмидт), doctor [maybe Walter Kalksmid?]


Brief 3-pages version of the report:
http://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/vi...spravki:drugie

Full version:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/v...ugie::page%5C3
It is specific source but, as written in conclusion, Siegfried Heer testified willingly and at ease, and the data known to Int.Dept are correspond to the words of the POW.

Best regards,
Andrey

[Mikael Olrog]

Sounds interesting! Thanks for sharing! But none of the linkes work at the moment...

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Hello Mikael,

the links are updated now, try again. Strange, the old links were working yesterday when I have checking, but then something went wrong.

Best regards,
Andrey

[Andy Mitchell]

Andrey,

Still coming up with a 503 error this morning.

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Hello Andy,

right now it works on my PC. I'll try today later to check from other PC and other IP.
While have added to the starting post a link to the 3-pages brief version of the report, obtained in a more usual way.

Best regards,
Andrey

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Do the links working now?

[Mikael Olrog]

links to document works fine now but the autotranslation doesn't

[Andy Mitchell]

Andrey,

The new links provided work OK for me as well.

Many thanks