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Sören Kam is dead

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Post by Spirow Ewes » 29 Mar 2015, 23:04

Ste wrote:SS-Untersturmführer Sören Kam

* 02.11.1921 Kopenhagen
+ 23.03.2015 Kempten

RK on 07.02.1945 as Führer 1./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 "Germania"
Source: http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... ost6866969
I've never read an account of Kam's RK action. Does anyone know what was it about?

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Post by kstdk » 30 Mar 2015, 10:47

Hello

Here in interviuw with Søren Kam (in Danish only, sorry - but it is possible to use web translaters):

http://www.smartcms.dk/user/haaest/vis. ... korset.htm

Quote: (From page 357 in the boot "Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen SS" from "Der Freiwillige" in Osnabrück.

Den officielle begrundelse for RK:

Den officielle begrundelse for Søren Kams Ridderkors står at læse på side 357 i bogen “Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen-SS”, udgivet efter krigen på kammeratskabsforlaget 'Der Freiwillige' i Osnabrück:

"Ved uhørt mod, ved dumdristigt gennemførte modstød og ved enestående standhaftighed havde SS-Obersturmführer Søren Kam allerede ofte udmærket sig ved Pansergrenaderregiment Germania under SS-Division Wiking. Imod givne befalinger fløj han ind i Tcherkassy-kedlen og førte, trods svære hovedkvæstelser, en deling under udbruddet gennem de omringende, talmæssigt langt overlegne, russiske troppestyrker. I det tredie forsvarsslag mellem Weichselfloden og Bugfloden kæmpede hans kompagni mod bolschevikkerne om et højdedrag, der havde afgørende betydning for gennemførelsen af divisionens kamp i dette frontafsnit.
Seks gange gik højdedraget tabt - Hver gang truede regimentets front med at bryde sammen - og seks gange blev det generobret trods voldsom beskydning bl.a. af fjendtlige kampflyvere. Ved aftenstid holdt SS-Oberssturmführer Søren Kam højdedraget fast i sin hånd med de sidste rester af sit kompagni, som han i dagens løb var blevet chef for, idet alle foranstående officerer var faldet eller hårdt sårede bragt bort. Ved personligt mod lykkedes det SS-Obersturmführer Kam, da ordren kom om at søge at redde sig og kompagniets rester tilbage, viste Kam personligt mod - og det lykkedes ham at redde enheden tilbage."

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Post by Spirow Ewes » 31 Mar 2015, 03:21

Thanks! I've translated and could understand most of it.

But one thing caughy my attention: the Battle of Cherkassy Pocket ended in Feb 1944, and Kam's RK dates from Feb 1945. Was he decorated by an action that took place a whole year before?

If so, that's the first time I see a RK being awarded so late.

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Post by freddiefro » 31 Mar 2015, 03:54

According to the Vorschlag for Kam's RK, he was recommended for the award 8.11.1944 and received it 3-months later (7.2.1945). Below is a document from that recommendation.

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Post by Ste » 31 Mar 2015, 21:47

Spirow Ewes wrote:Thanks! I've translated and could understand most of it.

But one thing caughy my attention: the Battle of Cherkassy Pocket ended in Feb 1944, and Kam's RK dates from Feb 1945. Was he decorated by an action that took place a whole year before?

If so, that's the first time I see a RK being awarded so late.
Well,it seems that Otto Bösel receveid the RK two years after the action that made him earn that award!

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Post by Spirow Ewes » 31 Mar 2015, 22:56

Very interesting, I was not aware.

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Per ... oeselO.htm

But according to the document posted above, Kam's RK action took place north of Warsaw in October, 1944. So the awarding didn't took as long as I imagined.

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