Capt. Henry Abbes, commander of K co. 117th Infantry Regiment stands next to Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar who surrendered to them the day before. Magdeburg, Germany, April 24th 1945.

Final surrender

Gerardus Leonardus Mooyman (23.09.1923 - 21.06.1987), Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS. In the battle at Lake Ladoga he destroyed 13 tanks, for this action he was the first non-German to be awarded the Knight's Cross. By the end of his service on the front he was credited with destroying 23 Soviet tanks.

Gerardus Mooyman

German soldiers somewhere in the USSR cutting wood for the fire.