Willi Riedel with His Unit on the Way to Stalingrad

Don, Southern sector of the Eastern Front - Hauptmann Willi Riedel (left, Kommandeur III.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 524 / 297.Infanterie-Division) with his soldiers during "Zigarettenpause". The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Geller on 21 June 1942 when 297. Infanterie-Division on the way to Stalingrad. Riedel received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 8 October 1942 and Eichenlaub on 25 January 1943, both as the commander of 3rd Battalion.

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