Two Knight's cross holders from the same village

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Post by Henry Jones » 11 Oct 2004 14:08

A Knights-Cross and oakleave owner whos still living is Major Alois Eisele, a well-know man from my familie and First Knights-cross owner from our village (2.000 peoples in 1939)
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Post by Henry Jones » 11 Oct 2004 14:10

The second Knights-cross owner from our village was Willi Hägele, a friend of my grandfather
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Post by Daniel L » 11 Oct 2004 14:49

Henry, I splitted this from the Knight's cross holders identification since that thread is for identification of unidentified Knight's cross holders. :)

By the way, what village is it, Göppingen?

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Post by Henry Jones » 11 Oct 2004 14:53

Not completely, its Salach, Göppingen is our district town.

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Post by Daniel L » 11 Oct 2004 14:56

I see, so both lived there before and during the war or afterwards?

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Post by Henry Jones » 11 Oct 2004 15:00

Before and during the war, Alois Eisele was awarded after war from our Local council for his breavary, now he is living 5km away in Eislingen

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Post by Daniel L » 11 Oct 2004 15:11

I see, thanks for sharing the photos and the information.

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Post by Henry Jones » 21 Jun 2005 19:14

Hallo,

here three documents from Alois Eisele (from the city archiv in Eislingen)

If you have interessests I can schow more things from Alois Eisele (RK-Glückwunsch, Entnazifizierung ect..)
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Re: Two Knight's cross holders from the same village

Post by Nicole S. » 25 Aug 2008 09:49

Hi!

Found this article in Kameraden, issue Nr.530 of Mai 1998:
http://i34.tinypic.com/taodbk.jpg

Horrido!

Nicole

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