gb-003348-wl2256
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biographical history: Dr. Eugen Nätscher was born on 21 February 1914 in Gemünden am Main, Bavaria. He attended the local elementary school then the Gymnasium in Lohr, Bavaria, where he completed his Abitur in 1932. He qualified as a doctor at the medical faculty in Würzburg. During World War Two he worked as an army doctor for the 10th Panzer Grenadier Division which operated in Poland and Russia. After the end of the war he spent some time as a prisoner of war. In 1946 he opened a doctor’s practice in Partenstein, Bavaria, where he became a respected member of the community. In 1981 he passed the practice on to his son, Dr. Wolfgang Nätscher. Eugen Nätscher died on 4 February1989. During his deployment in Russia he kept a diary which he dispatched home in several note books. In the 1980s he produced a word-processed version replete with scanned photogaphs, landscape sketches and images of documents.
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conditions of use: This material has been digitised. Readers should book a reading room terminal to access it.
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identifier: WL2256
record resource extent: 1 folder
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scope and content: Diary of a German army doctor in Russia during World War Two including digitised manuscript version, digitised word-processed version with scans of photographs, sketches and associated documents.
title: Eugen Nätscher collection