SMGP-1924 Oskar Schäfer SS Panzer knights cross Signature

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Description

A 3.5×5″ Matte finish photo print with authentic post war signature in black marker.

From Traces of war:

Schäfer, Oskar ‘Fritz’ (Waffen SS)

Date of birth:: January 16th, 1921 (Nixdorf/Sudetenland, Czechoslowakia)
Date of death:: November 22nd, 2011 (Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany)
Service number:: SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
Nationality:: Austrian

Biography

Promotions:
01.10.1941: SS-Unterscharführer
02.04.1943: SS-Scharführer
01.07.1943: SS-Oberscharführer
01.09.1943: SS-Untersturmführer

Career:
09.11.1938: 12. Sturm, SS-Standarte “Deutschland”
00.09.1939: campaign in Poland
00.05.1940: campaign in France
00.06.1941: campaign in Russia – 12. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment ‘Deutschland’, SS-Division ‘Reich’
00.11.1941: severely WIA to the head and evacuated to a Lazarett
00.00.1942: SS-Panzer-Abteilung 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division „Wiking”
00.00.1943: Instructor, Panzertruppenschule
00.00.1944: schweren SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103, Sennelager
00.03.1945: Führer, 3. Schwadron, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503 – Arnswalde, Stargard
00.04.1945: severely WIA and escaped from the Kolberg pocket to reach Greifswald
00.04.1945: fightings on the Oder and Berlin
00.04.1945: WIA with first degree burns
28.04.1945: while fighting in the Zähringer Strasse area of Wilmersdorf, ordered to attend the Führerbunker to be awarded the Knight’s Cross presented by Wilhelm Mohnke
02.05.1945: severely WIA when his Tiger II was hit by a Russian JS II tank while leading the Mohnke group crossing the Heer Strasse evacuated to a Lazarett
00.00.1947: released from captivity
Tank ace credited with more than 50 tank kills

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