Face of Courage
1st Edition
Published on 9. June 2011
624 pages
978-0-8117-4490-4 (ISBN)
Description
Profiles of the 98 German soldiers--out of millions--who received both the Knight's Cross (for extreme bravery) and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold (for at least 50 days of hand-to-hand fighting) during World War II.
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Language
English
Place of publication
PA
United States
Illustrations
564 BW Photos
File size
24,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8117-4490-4 (9780811744904)
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Florian Berger
The Face of Courage
The 98 Men Who Received the Knight's Cross and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold
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06/2011
Stackpole Books
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Florian Berger lives in Germany.
Content
- Intro
- The Stackpole Military History Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editor's Notes
- Foreword
- The Knight's Cross
- The Close Combat Clasp
- The Gold Award
- Recipients of the Knight's Cross with the Close Combat Clasp in Gold
- Days of Close Combat
- SS-Sturmbannführer Karl Auer
- Oberfeldwebel Johann Baichl
- Major Gregor Baunach
- Hauptmann Rudolf Becker
- Oberleutnant der Reserve Alfons Bialetzki
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Joachim Boosfeld
- SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Buchner
- SS-Oberscharführer Friedrich Buck
- SS-Standartenführer der Reserve Lèon Degrelle
- Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel Siegfried Deutschmann
- Hauptmann Heinrich Dittlof
- Major i.G. Anton Donnhauser22
- Major Frantz Dutter
- SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve Hans Eckert
- Major Alois Eisele
- Hauptmann Karl-Heinrich Fink
- Major Heinz Finke
- SS-Obersturmführer Kurt Franke
- Oberleutnant Erwin Frankenfeld
- Oberleutnant Erich Friedrich
- Hauptmann Max Friedrich
- Oberfeldwebel Franz Gössmann
- Hauptmann Ernst Grunau
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Hack
- Major der Reserve Martin Hackl
- Feldwebel Karl Hamberger
- SS-Standartenführer Max Hansen
- Oberfeldwebel Lorenz Harthan
- Hauptmann Rüdiger Hertel
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Bruno Hinz
- Leutnant der Reserve Franz Hofbauer
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Friedrich Holzer
- Unteroffizier Fritz Jacobeit
- Oberstleutnant Hermann-Gustav Jochims
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Juchem
- Leutnant Franz Juschkat
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Vinzenz Kaiser
- Major Traugott Kempas
- Oberfeldwebel Kurt Klein
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Gustav Knittel
- Rittmeister Günther Konopacki
- Major der Reserve Gerhard Konopka
- Hauptmann der Reserve Bernhard Kranz
- Hauptmann Helmut Kroeg
- Oberfeldwebel Ernst Kutschkau
- SS-Hauptscharführer Josef Lainer
- Hauptmann Waldemar Lehmann
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Alfred Lex
- Major Friedrich Lindenberg
- Hauptmann Wilhelm Loos
- Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel Alfred Lorenz95
- Oberst der Reserve Erich Lorenz
- SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Macher
- Major Rolf Mager
- SS-Untersturmführer Hermann Maringgele
- Major Helmut Meitzel
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Werner Meyer
- Oberstleutnant Walter Misera
- Major der Reserve Emil Möller
- Major Werner Möller
- Major Siegfried Moldenhauer
- SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve Heinz Müller
- SS-Obersturmführer Alois Obschil
- Oberstleutnant der Reserve Hans-Arno Ostermeier
- SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve Adolf Peichl
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Harry Phoenix
- Major Michael Pössinger
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Georg Preuss
- Leutnant der Reserve Karl Radermacher
- Oberst Emil Rentschler
- Obergefreiter Franz Richter
- Hauptmann Hans-Heinrich Richter
- Oberleutnant Erich Rudnick
- Major der Reserve Alfred Rutkowski
- Major der Reserve Johann Sauer
- Oberfeldwebel Otto Sawatzki
- Major Kurt Schäfer
- Oberst der Reserve Walter Schlags-Koch
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Schmelzer
- Major der Reserve Ernst Schneck
- SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Schreiber
- SS-Sturmbannführer Helmuth Schreiber
- SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Schulze
- Unteroffizier Walter Schwanbeck
- SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter Seebach
- Hauptmann Herbert Singer
- SS-Bridgadeführer Silvester Stadler
- Leutnant der Reserve Rolf Tittel
- Major der Reserve Otto Vincon
- Oberst Heinrich Volker
- Major der Reserve Helmut Wandmaker
- Major Georg Wenzelburger
- SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Werner
- Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Wimmer
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Günther Wisliceny
- Hauptmann der Reserve Werner Wolf
- Oberstleutnant Hermann Wulf
- Disputed, Ambiguous and Unresolved Cases
- SS-Waffen-Hauptsturmführer Zanis Butkus
- Major der Reserve Sigwart Göller
- Major Matthias Starl
- Other Disputed, Ambiguous and Unresolved Cases
- Ranks
- By Way of Explanation
- Bibliography
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Original Publisher's Acknowledgements
- Other Books in the Series
- Back Cover
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