Show us your favourite Ritterkreuz photo

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Collectors post your favorite RK holder photo - don´t let this tread die!!

[jacques]

Moelders

[Mike H]

More photos ...

OK. You asked for it. I have a batch of photos of Oberleutnant Hermann Meyer being presented the RK by Hugo Sperrle and his subsequent celebration in Lehrte, Germany -- I assume his hometown. Lehrte is between Hannover and Braunschweig. I think you will find these interesting as they show how a city turned out for its hero and honored him.

Here are some more of the Sperrle presentation.

Mike

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Incidentally, Heinrich Meyer was presented the DKiG on 15 December 1941 and was in I./KG 2 and a Leutnant at the time.

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Here are the two men after the presentation.

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Lehrte welcomes it RKT.

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What would it be without a band ...

[Mike H]

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Saluting the local NSFK man.

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The locals gathering in front of a building to see their hero.

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He pokes his head out ...

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Lunch with the city fathers, party officials, and so on ...

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With the kids --- and an admiring young lady off to the right who appears in more than one of the photos.