Wehrmacht Knight's Cross recipients: Hauptmann (Captain) GÜNTER KLAPPICH (Battalion CO in motorized Grenadier-Regiment 60; +KIA January 22, 1943 near Rostov/Southern Russia), Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) ERICH LÖFFLER (Town Commandant Frankfurt a. d. Oder; +KIA March 17, 1945 in Frankfurt a. d. Oder/Eastern Germany) and Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) WILHELM SPINDLER (CO Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 99; +1997 in Stuttgart/Germany).

Klappich, Löffler, Spindler

Hauptmann (Captain) RUDOLF KRÜGER (*November 4, 1911; +October 28, 1972). Awarded the Knight's Cross as Oberfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) and Platoon leader in 6th Company/Infanterie-Regiment 32 on October 5, 1941. Photo taken in Germany, October 1941.

Hauptmann RUDOLF KRÜGER

SS-Untersturmführer Lauri Törni a.k.a. Larry Thorne. 1941

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