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Schäfer, Oskar 'Fritz' (Waffen SS)

    Date of birth:
    January 16th, 1921 (Nixdorf/Sudetenland, Czechoslowakia)
    Date of death:
    November 22nd, 2011 (Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany)
    Service number:
    SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
    Nationality:
    Austrian (1938-1945, Reichsgau)

    Biography

    Promotions:
    01.10.1941: SS-Unterscharführer
    02.04.1943: SS-Scharführer
    01.07.1943: SS-Oberscharführer
    01.09.1943: SS-Untersturmführer

    Career:
    09.11.1938: 12. Sturm, SS-Standarte "Deutschland"
    00.09.1939: campaign in Poland
    00.05.1940: campaign in France
    00.06.1941: campaign in Russia - 12. Kompanie, SS-Infanterie-Regiment 'Deutschland', SS-Division 'Reich'
    00.11.1941: severely WIA to the head and evacuated to a Lazarett
    00.00.1942: SS-Panzer-Abteilung 5, 5. SS-Panzer-Division „Wiking"
    00.00.1943: Instructor, Panzertruppenschule
    00.00.1944: schweren SS-Panzer-Abteilung 103, Sennelager
    00.03.1945: Führer, 3. Schwadron, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503 - Arnswalde, Stargard
    00.04.1945: severely WIA and escaped from the Kolberg pocket to reach Greifswald
    00.04.1945: fightings on the Oder and Berlin
    00.04.1945: WIA with first degree burns
    28.04.1945: while fighting in the Zähringer Strasse area of Wilmersdorf, ordered to attend the Führerbunker to be awarded the Knight's Cross presented by Wilhelm Mohnke
    02.05.1945: severely WIA when his Tiger II was hit by a Russian JS II tank while leading the Mohnke group crossing the Heer Strasse evacuated to a Lazarett
    00.00.1947: released from captivity
    Tank ace credited with more than 50 tank kills

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    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
    Awarded on:
    1941
    Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
    Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Unterscharführer (Sergeant)
    Awarded on:
    November 1941
    Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Awarded on:
    1944
    Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Silber
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant)
    Unit:
    Führer, 3. Kompanie, schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503, Waffen-SS
    Awarded on:
    April 29th, 1945
    Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes

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