Bremick wrote: > Up until she was married in 1938, my mother in the US had a rather > well-to-do German pen pal for a couple years. He sent her dozens of > postcards which I still have. I'm wondering how difficult it would be, > knowing only his name (Erwin J.Pilz) and his approximate birth date in the > mid-1910's, to determine if he served in and survived the War. Although I > don't have online access to German records, would this type of information > have been recorded and possibly survived today? Would his name have been > common enough that I would likely need more information to be able to zero > in on him? > > Try asking on soc.genealogy.german -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com