Bruins, Derk Elsko
- Date of birth:
- March 20th, 1923 (Vlagtwedde/Groningen, the Netherlands)
- Date of death:
- February 5th, 1986 (Gerolstein/Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- Nationality:
- Dutch
Biography
Derk Elsko Bruins was born in Vlagtwedde on 20th March 1923. He became a member of the Dutch National Socialist Party, the N.S.B. and entered the Waffen-SS as volunteer on 26th April 1941.
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Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)
- Unit:
- Geschützführer, 1. Kompanie, SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 54, 4. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade "Nederland", Waffen-SS
- Awarded on:
- August 23rd, 1944
Sources
- Photo 1: Stiwot
- Photo: STIWOT
- - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- HUß, JÜRGEN & SONDERMANN, HEINZ-WERNER, Ritterkreuzträger im Mannschaftsstand 1941-1945, VDM Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2009.
- Krätschmer E.G., Die Ritterkreuzträger des Waffen-SS
- Twentsch Nieuwsblad, vrijdag 1 september 1944, 2e jaargang, No. 245
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