Soldbuch to Sanitäts-Unteroffizier Kurt Habicht. First issue from January 1940. A hairdresser in Darmstadt in daily life, Habicht was called up by the Luftwaffe early 1940 and trained as a medic. In 1941, his units include leichte Flak-Abteilung 725 in Narvik and the Luftwaffe-Sanitätsstaffel at the airport of Kjeller, both in Norway. In 1942-'43 he served even further north, at Rovaniemi and Nautsi on the Arctic front, before committing to a drastic change of scenery: from August 1943, he served with the Panzer-Division "Hermann Göring".  

With the elite HG division, Habicht joined the fighting agains the Salerno beachhead in 1943, all the way through the Anzio/Nettuno beachhead early 1944, then retreating through Rome toward Firenze, until mid July 1944 the division was moved to the Eastern Front. Habicht now served as a field medic with the 2./ Sturmbataillon der Divisions-Kampfschule "Hermann Göring" as part of the Fallschirm-Panzer-Division Hermann Göring in Poland, with parts of the division used to crush the Warsaw Uprising. It is in this time frame, late August 1944, that Habicht was wounded by pieces of shrapnel on the left side of his body (thigh, knee and hand), on August 27th, 1944. He was evacuated to hospital in Liegnitz (Legnica), and awarded not only the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz but also the EKII following this wound.  

Habicht did not rejoin the Hermann Göring division after his recovery, but ended up with Flak-Abteilung 157 instead, fighting on the Western Front as part of the 13. Flak-Division, retreating from the French-German border area near Freiburg through the Schwarzwald in support of the 19. Armee. He was allowed a last leave to his bombed home in Darmstadt in January 1945, and must have been made POW in the next months.  

The Soldbuch has the pages loose but is in good condition, packed with entries and with a great portrait photo in tropical uniform while Unteroffizier-Anwärter with the HG Division in Italy. Interesting entries include a 7.63 mm pistol with extra ammunition, medical pouches and bandages he was issued as a medic, treatment for scarlet fever in a Finnish military hospital in 1942, and the Führergeschenk.