Knight Crosses today

[Sepp45]

RK awarded to SS-Obersturmbannführer Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann
Kommandeur, III. Bataillon, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 23 Norge
Awarded on: March 12th, 1944

Confirmation for the Oak Leaves are not known, although Lohmann wore a 57er set after the war.

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Zoom on Lohmann's KC and decorations

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RK awarded to Oberst Paul-Hermann Werner
Kommandeur, Panzer-Regiment 31, 5. Panzer-Division, Heer
Awarded on: June 3rd, 1940

One more photo of this early cross

(Photo credits to www.team-militaria.de/)

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RK preliminary award document to Leutnant August Reuter
Zugführer 2./PzJägAbt 219
Presented on: May 15th, 1945

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Zoom on Reuter's document.

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RK preliminary award document to Hauptmann Siegfried Betke
Staffelkapitän 9./KG 26
Presented on: August 8th, 1944

[esquiroz]

Günther Rall

Al original orders of Günther Rall were taken away directly at the moment he was a POW. He even wrote it in his memories and told me and a ver y bug group personally in Helsinki firing the presentation of his book "Mein Flugbuch" at Helsinki's airport years ago. Jani Tiannen, a well reputed seller of Finnland, was also there and put him a direct questions in this sense. If yours, he hoy a duplicate after the war and I doubt it due to his comments about his wartime experience. He recovered his map many years after the war and sold it quickly.

[Sepp45]

RK formal award documento to Major Edgar Petersen
Kommandeur I./KG 40
Presented on: October 21th, 1940.

This document is currently at the World War II museum in Boston

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RK awarded to Hauptmann Robert-Georg Baron of Malapert
Staffelkapitän 5. / Stukageschwader 1
Awarded the Ritterkreuz: January 6th, 1942

Kommandeur II. / Stukageschwader 1.
Awarded the Oak Leaves: June 8th, 1942

Photo of Malapert's Knight's Cross from a 2009 edition of the "Internationales Militaria-Magazine"

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RK preliminary award document to Hauptmann Hauptmann Willi Hilss
Geschützführer PzJägAbt 46
Presented on: January 19th, 1941

(Thanks to my friend Daniel for sending the photo)

[Denis]

Hello Sepp

Sorry But the Hilss' Preliminary Document is seemingly a fake.
Would need to see the signature to confirm.
Anyway, the rubber stamp is not good and the gothics printed letters seem also weird (too bold).

Denis

[Mike Gaspar]

Definitely a fake!

[Sepp45]

Hello Sepp

Sorry But the Hilss' Preliminary Document is seemingly a fake.
Would need to see the signature to confirm.
Anyway, the rubber stamp is not good and the gothics printed letters seem also weird (too bold).

Thank you Denis! If the mods want to delete the Hilss post, please do

[Sepp45]

RK awarded to Oberst Joachim Schlee
Kommandeur GrenRgt 338
Awarded on: April 16th, 1943

(Photo credits to www.philipp-militaria.com)

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Front and back of Schlee's Knight's Cross

(Photo credits to www.philipp-militaria.com)