Timo Worst
@timoworst.bsky.social
www.knittelbooks.com
Author of "Career, Crimes and Trial of SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel", "A Week of Horror in the Ardennes: an investigation into the war crimes of Schnelle Gruppe Knittel" and "The SS in the Ambléve Valley".
Author of "Career, Crimes and Trial of SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel", "A Week of Horror in the Ardennes: an investigation into the war crimes of Schnelle Gruppe Knittel" and "The SS in the Ambléve Valley".
Field grave of an unidentified German soldier in Stavelot. The photograph was taken in January 1945 by Jean Jacob. According to SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel, his Schnelle Gruppe lost 60 dead, 200 wounded and 20 missing in and around the town.
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January 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Field grave of an unidentified German soldier in Stavelot. The photograph was taken in January 1945 by Jean Jacob. According to SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel, his Schnelle Gruppe lost 60 dead, 200 wounded and 20 missing in and around the town.
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19 December 2025: after the memorial mass, participants in the annual commemorations walk from the Saint-Sébastien church to the Stavelot abbey for a ceremony at the monument to 138 murdered civilians.
January 10, 2026 at 7:50 AM
19 December 2025: after the memorial mass, participants in the annual commemorations walk from the Saint-Sébastien church to the Stavelot abbey for a ceremony at the monument to 138 murdered civilians.
[1/5] It was close to 14.30hrs when Lucie Jourdan first encountered the German soldiers. The 22-year-old farmhand came walking down the main road with her fiancée, Armand Depotter. Two groups of about fifty Germans came down the road through Ster in the direction of Renardmont...
January 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
[1/5] It was close to 14.30hrs when Lucie Jourdan first encountered the German soldiers. The 22-year-old farmhand came walking down the main road with her fiancée, Armand Depotter. Two groups of about fifty Germans came down the road through Ster in the direction of Renardmont...
The Legaye house in December 2023...
January 4, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The Legaye house in December 2023...
1st Lieutenant Frank Warnock, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th US Infantry Division, would never forget how he found the bodies in the garden of the Legaye house on the afternoon of the 22nd of December 1944, three days after the massacre...
January 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
1st Lieutenant Frank Warnock, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th US Infantry Division, would never forget how he found the bodies in the garden of the Legaye house on the afternoon of the 22nd of December 1944, three days after the massacre...
The murders in Stavelot in all their cruelty: on the 28th of December 1944, nine days after the massacre, INP Pool Cameraman Allan Jackson took this photo of the victims in the garden of the Legaye house. In the foreground lie the remains of poor Jean Remy.
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January 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The murders in Stavelot in all their cruelty: on the 28th of December 1944, nine days after the massacre, INP Pool Cameraman Allan Jackson took this photo of the victims in the garden of the Legaye house. In the foreground lie the remains of poor Jean Remy.
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[1/2] The boy on the right, with the dark rain boots, is Jean Remy in happier days, posing with soldiers from the American garrison in Stavelot only a week before he and his mother were both murdered by the SS. The other children are André and Georges Dubois, who both survived the war...
January 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM
[1/2] The boy on the right, with the dark rain boots, is Jean Remy in happier days, posing with soldiers from the American garrison in Stavelot only a week before he and his mother were both murdered by the SS. The other children are André and Georges Dubois, who both survived the war...
[1/2] People sometimes forget that Stavelot was liberated by the Americans in September 1944 and that the inhabitants of the town and surrounding hamlets lived in peace until the German offensive of December 1944 brought the war back, with the horrific result that 138 civilians were murdered...
January 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM
[1/2] People sometimes forget that Stavelot was liberated by the Americans in September 1944 and that the inhabitants of the town and surrounding hamlets lived in peace until the German offensive of December 1944 brought the war back, with the horrific result that 138 civilians were murdered...
The casualty report for SS-Hauptsturmführer Wawrzinek states that he was wounded on the 2nd of January 1945, but does not mention where or how and does not detail the nature of his wound or wounds.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:50 AM
The casualty report for SS-Hauptsturmführer Wawrzinek states that he was wounded on the 2nd of January 1945, but does not mention where or how and does not detail the nature of his wound or wounds.
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December 2023, between the Mazures farm and the hamlet of Ster...
December 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
December 2023, between the Mazures farm and the hamlet of Ster...
[1/2] Farmer and sawmill owner Joseph Müller was born in Faymontville on the 13th of December 1903 to Louis (Ludwig) Müller and Marie Louise Clémentine Bodarwe and lived in Montenau with his wife Catherine Müller-Schindfessel.
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December 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
[1/2] Farmer and sawmill owner Joseph Müller was born in Faymontville on the 13th of December 1903 to Louis (Ludwig) Müller and Marie Louise Clémentine Bodarwe and lived in Montenau with his wife Catherine Müller-Schindfessel.
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[1/2] “On 24.06.1945, I was ironing my shirt in the kitchen of Mrs. Müller. At one point, Lieutenant Schindfessel noticed the tattoo on my left arm and told me that I had been SS. I began to deny at first but in the end, I told him the truth.”
December 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
[1/2] “On 24.06.1945, I was ironing my shirt in the kitchen of Mrs. Müller. At one point, Lieutenant Schindfessel noticed the tattoo on my left arm and told me that I had been SS. I began to deny at first but in the end, I told him the truth.”
The house of the Maréchal sisters photographed in April 2024
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The house of the Maréchal sisters photographed in April 2024
[1/3] SS-Unterscharführer Tigges in a photo from 1940.
December 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
[1/3] SS-Unterscharführer Tigges in a photo from 1940.
[1/2] In December 1944 the House of Parish Works in Wanne was the house of Anna and Euphrasie Maréchal. The sisters laid out the body of their brother Théophile in the house but had to flee Wanne the next morning...
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December 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
[1/2] In December 1944 the House of Parish Works in Wanne was the house of Anna and Euphrasie Maréchal. The sisters laid out the body of their brother Théophile in the house but had to flee Wanne the next morning...
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Théophile Maréchal was born on the 16th of November 1874, On the afternoon of the 20th of December 1944 the SS forced the 70-year-old lumberjack to come with them.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Théophile Maréchal was born on the 16th of November 1874, On the afternoon of the 20th of December 1944 the SS forced the 70-year-old lumberjack to come with them.
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Dachau, the 16.07.1946, defendants Hennecke (23, death), Hillig (24, 10 years), Hofmann (25, life), Knittel (31, life), Kotzur (32, life) and Krämer (33, 10 years) anxiously await the verdicts.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Dachau, the 16.07.1946, defendants Hennecke (23, death), Hillig (24, 10 years), Hofmann (25, life), Knittel (31, life), Kotzur (32, life) and Krämer (33, 10 years) anxiously await the verdicts.
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[1/3] Mug shot of SS-Sturmmann Trettin. In Schwäbisch Hall, Trettin and Kotzur both claimed that SS-Oberscharführer Bersin had been the driving force behind the shootings in Wanne. He gave the orders and told the two teenage soldiers who to kill...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
[1/3] Mug shot of SS-Sturmmann Trettin. In Schwäbisch Hall, Trettin and Kotzur both claimed that SS-Oberscharführer Bersin had been the driving force behind the shootings in Wanne. He gave the orders and told the two teenage soldiers who to kill...
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[1/2] The map Hans Trettin drew on the 31.01.1946 when he was being interrogated in Schwäbisch Hall prison depicting the locations where the first and second Belgian civilian mentioned in his statement were shot (A and B, both the front garden of the presbytery)...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
[1/2] The map Hans Trettin drew on the 31.01.1946 when he was being interrogated in Schwäbisch Hall prison depicting the locations where the first and second Belgian civilian mentioned in his statement were shot (A and B, both the front garden of the presbytery)...
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[1/2] Defendant number 62, Werner Sternebeck, leaves the court room at Dachau on his way to the cell block. The prosecution accused Sternebeck that on or about the 20.12.1944 he had permitted the shooting of allied civilians and had assisted in it...
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December 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
[1/2] Defendant number 62, Werner Sternebeck, leaves the court room at Dachau on his way to the cell block. The prosecution accused Sternebeck that on or about the 20.12.1944 he had permitted the shooting of allied civilians and had assisted in it...
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On 23.03.1946 Werner Sternebeck made this sketch of the crossroads in Wanne depicting the Command Post of SS-Hauptsturmführer Kalischko (1), the position of his own tank, Panzer IV ‘623’ (2), the church (3) and the Command Post of SS-Untersturmführer Heubeck (4)
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December 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On 23.03.1946 Werner Sternebeck made this sketch of the crossroads in Wanne depicting the Command Post of SS-Hauptsturmführer Kalischko (1), the position of his own tank, Panzer IV ‘623’ (2), the church (3) and the Command Post of SS-Untersturmführer Heubeck (4)
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19-year-old Georg Kotzur, one of the prime suspects in the Wanne murders. He joined Panzer-Regiment 1 LSSAH in October 1944 and the Ardennes was the first time he saw combat.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
19-year-old Georg Kotzur, one of the prime suspects in the Wanne murders. He joined Panzer-Regiment 1 LSSAH in October 1944 and the Ardennes was the first time he saw combat.
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[1/2] The map of the hamlet of Wanne Georg Kotzur drew on 31.12.1946 when he was being interrogated in Schwäbisch Hall prison depicting Heubeck’s tank (1), the villa were Heubeck’s crew was quartered (2)...
December 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
[1/2] The map of the hamlet of Wanne Georg Kotzur drew on 31.12.1946 when he was being interrogated in Schwäbisch Hall prison depicting Heubeck’s tank (1), the villa were Heubeck’s crew was quartered (2)...
