After the capitulation, Wolfgang Barth spent two years in an American POW camp in Regensburg. He had to rebuild his life and start all over again, but over the following years, he began to search out and find former members of 9. Kompanie. In fact, he found his first three former comrades in the Regensburg camp. He formed the company’s veterans association, which had its first meeting in 1959; sixteen veterans attended. The association met every two years until 1990, when it started meeting every year until 1995, when the last association meeting occurred. After that, many veterans had died, but the circle of friends still kept in touch with Barth, who remained at the center of contact. Barth had also assembled a vast collection of personal accounts and reports, which he kept in a sort of 9. Kompanie archive. It represents the sum total experience of over 250 men who fought in a war which caused much devastation.