Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by fakatona » 05 Dec 2017, 17:28

unknow RK... thank you
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1117 - Id: August Kiene, KC: 04.05.1944 as Leutnant, Führer 7./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 14
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by graveland » 05 Dec 2017, 20:51

Page 940 - 435 Richard Ruoff & Walther Fischer von Weikersthal
Page 940 - 18 Otto von Knobelsdorff
Page 940 - 2 Gustav Hippler (left) & Johann Pongratz (right)


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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by bake » 05 Dec 2017, 21:36

From Google Image: Who is the RKT?
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by chris44 » 05 Dec 2017, 22:31

page 940 pic 1117 Image 007.png (471.08 KiB) is
August KIENE , KC: 04.05.1944 as Leutnant, Führer 7./PzGrenRgt 14

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Peter » 06 Dec 2017, 19:55

I just found these in the US NARA Kriegsberichter archive.
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by dergeneral » 06 Dec 2017, 20:00

page 940, pic @23 : The man on the right is HJ-Stabsführer Helmut Möckel, Stellvertreter und Stabschef des Reichsjugendführers, who was later bestowed with the KC of the War Merit Cross with swords, He was killed in a car accident together with his wife an another HJ officer in February 1945.

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Post by graveland » 06 Dec 2017, 20:05

The last one is Friedrich Sieberg (US NARA Kriegsberichter archive).

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Post by Sinjoorke » 06 Dec 2017, 21:59

Page 768, pic. @62 by mkrivchenko » 17 Jun 2016, 09:27.
Far left is Maj. Otto Weiß, greeting SS-Staf. in SD Wilhelm Biermann.
Second RKT from left still unknown.
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Post by John Toner » 06 Dec 2017, 23:47

The first two images from Kriegsberichter-archiv.com website show Alexander v. Arentschild.

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Post by Sinjoorke » 07 Dec 2017, 22:17

Page 726, pic.12 by mkrivchenko » 04 Mar 2016, 13:03, is Lt. August Kiene.
Page 748, pic.12 by mkrivchenko » 25 Apr 2016, 06:32. Correct spelling is Rüffler.
Page 769, pic.@77 by mkrivchenko » 23 Jun 2016, 02:44 are Brändle, Ullmann and on the right Maj. Wolfgang Ewald.
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Sinjoorke » 07 Dec 2017, 22:33

Page 935, pic. Unknown_RKT.jpg by FANGIO » 17 Nov 2017, 02:31 looks very much like Hptm. d. R. Reinhard Hörning. Theoretically it can't be him, because he was awarded posthum. Maybe there is someone who can read the signature?
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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by GWorldmann » 08 Dec 2017, 17:25

Thanks!
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@43 - Id: Walther Schroth

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by graveland » 08 Dec 2017, 17:41

@43 Walther Schroth

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by Andyzor » 08 Dec 2017, 23:03

Hello, please help to recognize KC holders close Brauchitsch / 6076843. Thank you
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Id: Left to right: Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Böhme, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb & Wilhelm Fahrmbacher

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Re: Knight's Cross Holders Identification

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Post by graveland » 08 Dec 2017, 23:09

Andyzor wrote:Hello, please help to recognize KC holders close Brauchitsch / 6076843. Thank you
Left to right: Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Böhme, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb & Wilhelm Fahrmbacher

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