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- Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:15 pm
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: First to be awarded the Knight's Cross?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11284
Thanks - Nice thread! and a follow up question...
I suspected Hermann Goering would to be among the first to receive a KC... but it's interesting to learn that men of the Kriegsmarine got some of the earliest for individual acts of bravery. And the bonus questions: First KC of the SS... (Joseph Dietrich perhaps?) and first to get the oakleaves... (...
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:50 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: First to be awarded the Knight's Cross?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11284
Thanks
a very thorough reply.
- Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:52 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: First to be awarded the Knight's Cross?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11284
First to be awarded the Knight's Cross?
Who was the first to be awarded a Knight's Cross? (of the Iron Cross)
just wanted to know out of curiosity.
just wanted to know out of curiosity.
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:56 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: NSDAP membership in relation to SS- membership
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10985
...just ONE more question...
Thanks, I guess that answers my question,
I was referring mainly to the officers of the W-SS formations
One more question: Was membership expected for privates and NCO's too?
I assume foreign volunteers were excluded from membership because they were not German nationals.
I was referring mainly to the officers of the W-SS formations
One more question: Was membership expected for privates and NCO's too?
I assume foreign volunteers were excluded from membership because they were not German nationals.
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:29 pm
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: NSDAP membership in relation to SS- membership
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10985
NSDAP membership in relation to SS- membership
Hello, experts - was membership of the NSDAP required for SS- officers or just a matter of personal choice?
Just curious.
Just curious.
- Thu May 05, 2005 11:31 am
- Forum: Veterans and vet info
- Topic: Reunions with German and Russian veterans?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2107
thanks
thanks a lot for your answer, do you know what units the Russian and SS soldiers served in?
- Wed May 04, 2005 1:04 am
- Forum: Veterans and vet info
- Topic: Reunions with German and Russian veterans?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2107
Reunions with German and Russian veterans?
There has been plenty of reunions between German and western-allied troops, but has there been any between Germans and Russians? Of course the Cold War prevented this from happening for many years, but what about recent years? Maybe the brutal nature of the war on the Eastern Front makes a reunion i...
- Tue May 03, 2005 6:12 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: W-SS and relation to Einsatsgrupppen, any new views?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2781
thanks a lot for these links
Now I have some usefull information.
thanks a lot.
thanks a lot.
- Tue May 03, 2005 4:43 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: W-SS and relation to Einsatsgrupppen, any new views?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2781
Did a search here and a lot came up.
I can see a lot of posts have dealt with this in dept, I'll read those. I was just asking because you always get a million references to book saying different things ranging from: "W-SS did nothing but fight battles" to "everybody killed jews and civillians, from Wehrmacht clerks to t...
- Tue May 03, 2005 2:56 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: W-SS and relation to Einsatsgrupppen, any new views?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2781
W-SS and relation to Einsatsgrupppen, any new views?
I know this is an old discussion, but since new research keeps coming up on WWII issues I thought I might bring it up again. I'm asking because yesterday a program was aired on Danish TV about Danish SS-volunteers and this involved the issue "did they participate in murder on civilians" Th...
- Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:56 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Hitlerjunge Günther Nowak's Knight's Cross
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6518
Maybe a myth?
Günter Nowak's KC was discussed here a few years ago and somebody claimed both him and his destruction of 9 T-34's was a story made up by his company commander to hide the fact that the commander had been absent during a battle, I can't remember where that info was supposed to come from.
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:28 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Ostuf SCHIENHOFEN of sSSPzAbt 502, a RKT or not?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1672
You're right, that must be the explanation
With the restrictions on posting copyrighted photos on the web I'm not going to post the pic, but it probably isn't Schienhofen then.
thanks for your answer!
thanks for your answer!
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:31 am
- Forum: SS/Waffen-SS
- Topic: Ostuf SCHIENHOFEN of sSSPzAbt 502, a RKT or not?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1672
Ostuf SCHIENHOFEN of sSSPzAbt 502, a RKT or not?
I can't seem to find him in any online directories of Knight's Cross holders
but in "Tigers in Combat-2" by W.Schneider there is a photo of him wearing one (p. 357)
but in "Tigers in Combat-2" by W.Schneider there is a photo of him wearing one (p. 357)
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:21 pm
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: SCHIENHOFEN of sSSPzAbt 502, RKT or not RKT?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1493
SCHIENHOFEN of sSSPzAbt 502, RKT or not RKT?
I can't seem to find him in any online directories of Knight's Cross holders
but in "Tigers in Combat-2" by W.Schneider there is a photo of him wearing it (p. 357)
but in "Tigers in Combat-2" by W.Schneider there is a photo of him wearing it (p. 357)
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:09 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Losses of members of the panzerwaffe?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1672
Thanks for your answer.
I actually thought the panzerwaffe was a separate branch of service
wiser I am!
wiser I am!