Helmut Schneider

About The Author

Aged 19, Helmut Schneider volunteered for the German Panzer Arm in March 1941. He was one of the first five men sent to the Eastern Front. He took part in the Caucasus campaigns in and joined the Heavy Panzer Battalion 507 in 1943. He next moved on to the panzer grenadiers where he was given a Wanderer bicycle, a Panzerfaust and an assault rifle and was sent to fight the US Army on the Western Front. His decorations included the Panzer Assault Badge and the Iron Cross Second Class.

Books by Helmut Schneider

Tiger Battalion 507

Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment

Edited by Helmut Schneider / Foreword by Robert Forczyk
‘May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.’ - Helmut Schneider
This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recol...
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