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In February 1945 the Soviet occupation authority required all German civilian adults to "register", which he and Gertrud obediently did, whereupon they were both taken into forced labor. Gertrud ended up in the Soviet Union in the Ural Mountains, but the last anyone saw of Otto was him being used under military guard with other men to clear rubble from the streets of Preussisch Holland. His fate remains unknown. | In February 1945 the Soviet occupation authority required all German civilian adults to "register", which he and Gertrud obediently did, whereupon they were both taken into forced labor. Gertrud ended up in the Soviet Union in the Ural Mountains, but the last anyone saw of Otto was him being used under military guard with other men to clear rubble from the streets of Preussisch Holland. His fate remains unknown. | ||
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| + | File:BaltuttOtto Gefreiter.png|Lance Corporal Baltutt (center) | ||
| + | File:BaltuttWeddingPhoto_best.jpg|Otto and Gertrud Balutt (wedding photo) | ||
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Revision as of 12:27, 21 November 2020
Hermann Otto Baltutt (1904-1945?) was born in Memel, East Prussia, Germany. He went by his middle name, Otto. He was a skilled machinist who also served a term in the German Army before World War II. He was married to Gertrud Jakumeit, also of Memel, and they ultimately had four daughters. Due to his profession, age, and employment he was not required to serve further in the military during the war, and spent that time employed in a munitions factory in Königsberg, East Prussia. When the Soviet Army invaded East Prussia, he and his family were only able to flee to the town Preussisch Holland in East Prussia as the Soviets overtook them on their way to Berlin in January 1945.
In February 1945 the Soviet occupation authority required all German civilian adults to "register", which he and Gertrud obediently did, whereupon they were both taken into forced labor. Gertrud ended up in the Soviet Union in the Ural Mountains, but the last anyone saw of Otto was him being used under military guard with other men to clear rubble from the streets of Preussisch Holland. His fate remains unknown.
Lance Corporal Baltutt (center)
Otto and Gertrud Balutt (wedding photo)
