In May 1939 the accused was called up into the Wehrmacht. After attending the War School in Doeberitz, he was promoted to Reserve Lieutenant on 1 March 1941, and posted to the Infantry Regiment 96. He participated in the beginning of the Russian campaign with this unit. Doc vol VII p 589 f, 596, 937 Rs, 598 vol 4 p 701
In August 1941 he was assigned to the Pioneer Administration of the occupied Eastern Territories. He went to the Ordensburg Kroessinsee as SA-Obersturmbannfuehrer, and was there prepared, with others, for the coming “insertion” in the East [that is, the Nazi takeover of the government there]. Vol 18 p 2550
In the fall, Windisch came to the RC Lida as Stabsleiter [Staff Director] and deputy Regional Commissar. This post he held at least to 29 December 1942. Vol 18 p 2550
It was in this time that the deeds that are subject of this investigation were done. Doc vol VIII p 634
The accused claims to have been transferred from Lida to the RC Riga for a short time. Thereafter he claims, after “reactivation”, to have been with the Wehrmacht in Vienna. He has not, however, given any particulars as to which units he was transferred. Vol 1 p 100, vol 4 p 711, 713, vol 17 p 2434.
In early 1944, in any case, he was an instructing officer in a course for junior officers in Wehrkreis XVII in Brueck. During his membership in this organization he was wounded 15 March 1944 (hand grenade splinters in the temple) and was in a reserve hospital in Vienna with this wound to 21 March 1944. Doc vol VII, p 589 ff (WAST)
On 15 April 1944 the accused transferred to the Waffen-SS, and belonged, as Reserve SS-Untersturmbannfuehrer to a SS-Armored Grenadier Educational and Reinforcement Battalion. The accused claims to have been “tactics instructor” at the SS-Armored Grenadier Division “Das Reich” at this time. Doc vol VII p 590, 594, 598, vol 17 p 2434, 2435.
As already mentioned, the accused was from1 October 1944 at the SS-Headquarters C 2 (Office for viewpoint education). Doc vol VII p 590, 598, Hans Buchheim SS u. Polizei im NS-Staat p 219.
From 30 January 1945, Windisch was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer in the Reserve, and transferred to the truck driving school in Vienna. He claims that in 1945 he was promoted again to Hauptsturmfuehrer in the SS. Doc vol VII, p 590, 592, 598, vol 1 p 100.
In the last months of the war, he was allegedly in Budapest and at the front in Slovakia, and alleges that shortly before the war ended he took over a fighting group in Linz, that was composed of Waffen-SS, as well as an RAD- and a Volkssturm group. Vol 17 p 2435
With this group – which never saw action – he came into American custody
on surrender, and was released in June 1946. Vol 1 p 100, doc vol
VII p 593, 597 Rs.
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