[PAR35]

I wonder if the medic on the improvised stretcher is Papke. Do you know if the two photos are juxtaposed, or if the two being together here is just random?

[Larry381]

I wonder if the medic on the improvised stretcher is Papke. Do you know if the two photos are juxtaposed, or if the two being together here is just random?

Interesting question. I believe they're just random although both photos come from the same huge collection of photos. Only about twenty percent of the photos are marked with date and place and the balance, like these two, are unmarked.

I did find find an Internet reference to this name as follows:

Dr. Wilhelm Gottlieb Papke Dienstgrad: Oberarzt Born:1902 Died: 16.Aug.1941 Place of death: Arm.Sanko 1/562 mot. F.Laz. Uman; Dr. Wilhelm Gottlieb Papke has probably been re-interred in a Sammelfriedhof (collective cemetery) in Kiev, Ukraine as an unknown soldier according to this source:Graebersuche(Grave search)Online at Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. - Arbeit für den Frieden