Solbutch and Decorations (1945) of Private First Class Reinhold Neubert – 3rd Company, 284th Grenadier Regiment (96th Infantry Division)
- Soldbutch from 1944. Record of medals awarded. Includes pages for recording days of close combat in January and February 1945 in the Coslnok area of Hungary and the retreat south of the Danube and to Bratislava. Document complete with photo.
- Infantry Assault Badge (Silver), awarded on March 5, 1945.
- Verwundetenabzeichen Schwarz, awarded on May 5, 1945, and signed at the Reserve Hospital at the Hotel Husar in Garmisch, Bavaria.
In January 1945, the division moved to Hungary and participated there in the offensive toward the south, west of the mouth of the Gran. Defensive battles then took place south of the Danube, in the Tata-Tarjan-Bajna-Sarisap-Coslnok area, where the division was surrounded.
After breaking through the encirclement and heading toward Noden in March 1945, the division crossed the Danube and marched westward toward the Bratislava area. The retreat continued northward, passing through Vienna, toward Lower Austria, the Waldviertel, and the Freistadt area, where the division was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war. Some of the division’s members were subsequently handed over to the Red Army.
