Soldbuch
- ID-nummer
- 2014.006.004
- Title
- Soldbuch
- Type
- Dokument & anteckningar
- Description
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A Soldbuch is a military paybook and identity document. This Soldbuch belonged to Werner Forssmann, who became a medical officer in the German army in 1939, when the war broke out. He eventually rose to the rank of major. Forssmann had joined the Nazi party in 1932 and remained a member until 1945. At the end of the war he was a prisoner of war. After being released, he worked as a lumberjack and then as a district surgeon.
The Soldbuch was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Werner Forssmann's family in 2014. - laureate
- Werner Forssmann
Part of Soldbuch