Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Oberjäger (Corporal)

Unit:

Zugführer 7. / Jäger-Regiment 75 / 5.Jäger-Division

Awarded on:

March 14th, 1943

Here follows an excerpt from a Jäger-Regiment 75 combat report (dated 01.04.1943) that describes why Doser would be awarded the Knight’s Cross…

“… On the 06.03.1943 the Russians repeated their attacks. Their creation of a narrow attack wedge and the terrain conditions meant that in the sector of 7. Kompanie (formerly 6. Kompanie) a Russian attack of 200 men met only one-and-a-half squads of Doser’s Zug. It was thus inevitable that the Russians broke through the frontline here with 50 men. Oberjäger Doser immediately recognized the gravity of the situation and sealed it off with a few men from the hill where his bunker was located. He then alerted the Kompanie’s reserve squad on his own initiative so as to launch an immediate counterattack with it. The main frontline was recaptured following a bitter struggle before the Russians were able to bring up new forces.

Thanks to the decisiveness and personal bravery of Oberjäger Doser the potential disastrous expansion of this penetration was prevented, and the frontline was once again brought firmly under friendly control. The deed of this brave NCO would find special recognition a few days later through the award of the Knight’s Cross to the Iron Cross.

The location of this action was at Jaswy, south of Staraya Russa.”