Sunday, May 16, 2021

Ritterkreuzträger of RAD

Ritterkreuzträger (Knight's Cross recipients) from RAD in a gathering. The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy and militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. From left to right: Heinz Pfitzner (Ritterkreuz on 15 January 1943 as Oberleutnant der Reserve and Chef 2.Kompanie / Pionier-Bataillon 290 / 290.Infanterie-Division), Günter Vollmer (Ritterkreuz on 20 April 1943 as Oberleutnant der Reserve and Chef 3.Kompanie / I.Bataillon / Grenadier-Regiment 411 / 122.Infanterie-Division), Rudolf Kreitmair (Ritterkreuz on 31 March 1943 as Hauptmann der Reserve and Führer 7.Kompanie / II.Bataillon / Grenadier-Regiment 282 / 98.Infanterie-Division), and Rudolf Bittner (Ritterkreuz on 28 November 1942 as Gefreiter and Richtkanonier in 2.Kompanie / Panzerjäger-Abteilung 561).

Source :
https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Bittner,_Rudolf

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