RK Owner Captured On D-Day

[hagwalther]

A few years ago I went to the D-Day Museum at Portsmouth and picked up a catalogue to the museum itself which included notes on the Overlord Emboidery which was commissioned in 1968.

I was having a clear out of my library shelves and found the catalogue again and located this picture of a Knight Cross holder who was captured and D-Day itself and immortalised in the tapestary too. (See Photos).

Does anyone know who he was?

The caption states:

Images of surrender... the haunted stare of a German prisoner. Courage in an earlier battle had earned him the Iron Cross.

Regards ...

[hagwalther]

His part of the tapestry...

[Darrell]

I really wonder if it's actually an RK

[hagwalther]

I really wonder if it's actually an RK

Well, it's not on his pocket as per EK1 and it doesn't look like its attached to a button hole via a ribbon as these are all below the the cross except for the top button which is undone with no sign of ribbon passing through it so I can't see it being a EKII that has just been awarded before capture.

Does the lefthand pocket also have some award loops?

Regards...

[Darrell]

Maybe a recent RK winner that never received is RK yet. I've seen recipients wearing EK1s in this manner until they got awarded the RK.

However, it does appear to be a bit large for an EK2/EK1.

[Harry]

Possibly staged for the photo by the photographer.....On searching the prisoner the capturer found the award, An EKI, and pushed the pin through the 2nd button eyelet just for the photo...

[hagwalther]

Possibly staged for the photo by the photographer.....On searching the prisoner the capturer found the award, An EKI, and pushed the pin through the 2nd button eyelet just for the photo...

That seems pretty feasible Harry !!!



Regards ...

[Ed.Anderson,Jr.]

Well if you the size of the button or use a known size ratio you can
figure the size of the cross. Regards, Ed.

[gew98]

If you ask me the picture looks doctored for propaganda purposes. The cross looks added to the picture to my eye.

[Al P]

It does look like it was added to myself as well.

Al

[Adrian]

I think Harry has it spot on, if it was an RK suspended from his neck over his jacket, you would see the ribbon or method of suspension coming from under his collar and over the flap which is partly obscuring the top of the cross. Definately not an RK IMO.

[Santi]

Its not an RK for me....
I agree with all my collegues that said explanations of what it could have been
Maybe like you say, it could have been for propaganda, and placed there
Or its an EKI.......
Cheers

[J G]

For what ir's worth, I'd say it was an EK1 pinned there, maybe not even his.