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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- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
- Awarded on:
- 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
- Awarded on:
- November 1941
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
in bronze
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1944
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
in silver
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
- Unit:
- Führer, 3. Kompanie, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503, Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- April 29th, 1945
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