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Chowanetz, Otto

Date of birth:
October 24th, 1919 (Saitz/Sudetenland, Germany)
Date of death:
July 1943 (Oryol/Oryol Oblast, Soviet Union)
Nationality:
German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Otto Chowanetz is missing in action since July 1943. Some sources give as the date of being killed, March 17th, 1943.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer 1. / Grenadier-Regiment 17 / 31.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on:
August 8th, 1943
The following wartime excerpt describes why Chowanetz was awarded the Knight’s Cross…

“Following four days of heavy fighting, Feldwebel Otto Chowanetz broke into a commanding enemy hill position at the head of a Zug of Grenadiers and thereafter held the hill against several Soviet battalion-sized attacks.”
Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

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