Robert, pictured during the Ardennes Offensive.
Robert Wulff, born on August 9, 1919 in Oberlarg (today’s Alsace) became a German Paratrooper with the age of 21 while attending the Jump school in Wittstock / Pomerania (Fallschirmschule II, Commander Major Primus). After 6 jumps he passed the airborne school and was now a „Green Devil“. He was a member of the III./Fallschirmjäger-Rgt. 3 since this unit was born in August 1940, and at the end of the war in the I./ Fallschirmjäger-Rgt. 15. He saw action in combat missions in Russia, Italy as well as on the Western Front. He distinguished himself several times and got the Iron Cross 1st Class as well as the Close combat clasp in silver. Robert was repeatedly wounded. He became a US POW on May 2, 1945 and was taken over the Elbe river by British ferry boats and prevented himself from Soviet captivity.