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U-35 crew member Siegfried Kienast

The crew of U-35 arriving at a Scottish port after being captured. The original caption to this wartime magazine photo read: "Most of the forty-three prisoners expressed distaste at their task of sinking defenceless ships and seemed glad that their share in this type of warfare is finished." Pictured: Ernst Weber, Siegfried Kienast, Gerhard Freier, Wilhelm Janssen, Siegfried Bruse, Johann van der Pütten, Martin Müller, Karl Sommerer. [19,33,38]


Upon capture, Siegfried Kienast was assigned POW Number 37319.

U-35 crewmembers assembled at the Grande-Ligne POW camp in Quebec, Canada, 1944.
Back row, left to right: Gerhard Freier, Heinz Erchen, Hans-Joachim Roters, Gerhard Stamer, Paul Fichte
Front row (seated), left to right: Albert Schrader, Siegfried Kienast, Werner Lott, Peter Schwarz, Kurt Grosser [33]


Grande-Ligne. Left to right: Gerhard Freier, Siegfried Kienast, Dietrich Jahr (U-39), Albert Schrader, Peter Schwarz, Paul Fichte.


Another photo of U-35 crewmembers at Grande-Ligne. Left to right: Siegfried Kienast, Peter Schwarz, Albert Schrader, Gerhard Freier, Paul Fichte, Kurt Grosser.


Another photo of POWs at Grande-Ligne. Left to right: Paul Fichte, Fuchs, Kurt Grosser, Siegfried Kienast, Gilbert.


A photo of POWs at Grande-Ligne. Included in the picture from U-35: Siegfried Kienast, Paul Fichte, Peter Schwarz, Kurt Grosser, Albert Schrader, and Gerhard Freier.


POWs assembled at the Bowmanville POW camp.
Siegfried Kienast is seated, second from left, and Gerhard Freier is in the back row on the far right.
(courtesy of Käte Kienast, February 2000)


Another photo of POWs at Bowmanville. Standing, left to right: [not identified], [not identified], [not identified], Paul Fichte, [not identified], [not identified]. Seated, left to right: Siegfried Kienast, [not identified], Gerhard Marx, Theodor Schütt. [48]


A photo of POWs at Bowmanville. Siegfried Kienast is at the lower left.


Siegfried Kienast with his wife, Käte Kienast, and their son, shortly after repatriation.
(courtesy of Käte Kienast, February 2000)


Siegfried Kienast with his wife, Käte Kienast
(courtesy of Käte Kienast, February 2000)


Siegfried Kienast being honored at a ceremony.
(courtesy of Käte Kienast, February 2000)


Siegfried Kienast passed away in 1984 in Strausberg, Germany. He is survived by his wife Käte Kienast.

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