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THBGermany - Third Reich: An interesting Panzer Artillery Warrant Officer's Battle of Minsk Iron Cross 2ndClass, Orel Summer 1942 Fighting and Defence of
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A good bravery document group consisting of 6 award documents which belonged to a former senior Warrant Officer in a Panzer Artillery Regiment, who most likely was a pre-war volunteer soldier and who saw service in Poland, France and on the Eastern Front. Award Certificates: The Iron Cross 2ndClass awarded in the field on 12thJuly 1941 as an Unteroffizier, 5/27thArtillery Regiment (motorised). Signed by von Thoma as Generalmajor and General Officer Commanding 17thPanzer Division. von Thoma was awarded the Knights Cross on 13.12.1941 as Generalmajor and General Officer Commanding 20thPanzer Division. He later commanded the German Afrika Corps from 17thSeptember until 4thNovember 1942 when he was captured during the Battle of El Alamein as General of Panzer Troops. The Wound Badge in Black awarded in the field on 23rdOctober 1941 for a wound received on 12thJuly 1941 as a Wachtmeister, 5/27thArtillery Regiment (motorised). Signed by Nemec as Major and Battalion Commander. Nemec was awarded the German Cross in Gold on 7.7.1942 as Major and Commanding Officer II/27thPanzer Artillery Regiment. The General Assault Badge awarded by Divisional HQ on 18thJanuary 1942 as a Wachtmeister, 5/27thArtillery Regiment (motorised). Signed by Licht as Oberst and acting General Officer Commanding 17thPanzer Division. Licht was awarded the German Cross in Gold on 18.10.1941 as Oberst and Commanding Officer 40thRifle Regiment, 17thPanzer Division. The Ostmedaille awarded on 7thAugust 1942 as an Oberwachtmeister. Signed for correctness by an Oberst and Commanding Officer. The Iron Cross 1stClass awarded by Divisional HQ on 27thAugust 1942 as a Wachtmeister, 5/27thPanzer Artillery Regiment. Signed by Licht as Generalmajor and General Officer Commanding 17thPanzer Division. The Wound Badge in Silver awarded in the field on 13thFebruary 1943 as a Wachtmeister, 5/27thPanzer Artillery Regiment. Signed by a Hauptmann and Battalion Commander. Most likely a pre-war soldier, Kratzer almost certainly would have seen service in the campaign in Poland as part of 27thInfantry Division, the predecessor to 17thPanzer Division, The Division would have been involved in defending against the Allied counter-attack at Arras in May 1940 which attempted to cut off the German spearheads that had raced to the coast and cut off the British and French forces in Northern France. In November 1940, 27thInfantry Division was redesignated 17thPanzer Division and was rebuilt in Germany. The Division then took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22ndJune 1941, beginning the campaign with the battles around Bialystok and Minsk. It would have been for an act of gallantry in the Minsk area that Kratzer was awarded the Iron Cross 2ndClass, possibly at the same time as he received his wound on 12thJuly, which led to him being awarded the Black Wound Badge on 23rdOctober 1941. He was clearly back with his unit if he ever left it, fairly quickly, and was subsequently involved in Operation Typhoon, the assault on Moscow that began in October 1941. His Division attacking towards Tula towards the south west of Moscow. Clearly being involved in the defensive fighting against the major Red Army counterattacks that took place outside Moscow in the winter months of 1941-42, Kratzer was awarded the General Assault Badge on 18thJanuary 1942, and later the Ostmedaille on 7thAugust 1942. The Division went on to fight in the Orel region throughout the majority of 1942, and it would have been for an act of gallantry in the area during August 1942 that Kratzer was awarded the Iron Cross 1stClass on 27thAugust 1942. The Division was moved south in December to support the defence on the Don, which had been punctured in the post Stalingrad encirclement attacks in the region in early December 1942, the Division fought under heavy Red Army pressure for several weeks whilst in Rostov in January and February 1943 as it sought to keep the escape route from the Caucasus open for the German Army Group which had pushed its way to the Caucasus oilfields in the summer and autumn of 1942. It was during this heavy fighting that Kratzer was wounded for a 4thtime on 29thJanuary 1943. This was his final wounding, and the final piece of information we have about Kratzer, and it is unknown whether he continued to serve with the unit after this time. 17thPanzer Division went on to see fighting in the Kharkov area during the Third Battle of Kharkov in March 1943, and then retreated back to the Dnieper. It was then caught up in the pocket battles at Kherson, Cherkassy and Kamenetz-Podolsk over the winter of 1943-44. Later in the summer-autumn of 1944 it fought defensive battles at the Baranov Bridgehead on the Vistula before being forced back to the Oder, and eventually to Mahren where it surrendered to the Russians at the end of April and in early May 1945.
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