Ritterkreuz Award Ceremony for Helmuth Schreiber and Günther Wisliceny

This picture shows three officers from the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Deutschland" / SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Das Reich", from left to right: SS-Hauptsturmführer Helmuth Schreiber (Chef 10.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Deutschland"), SS-Standartenführer Heinz Harmel (Kommandeur SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Deutschland"), and SS-Sturmbannführer Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny (Kommandeur III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Deutschland"). They were photographed near the settlement of Stepanovka, on the so-called "Mius Front" (fortified defensive line of the Wehrmacht on the western bank of the Mius River) in early August 1943, during the Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Kompaniechef Schreiber and Bataillonskommandeur Wisliceny. Schreiber received the Ritterkreuz on 30 July 1943 after successfully capturing a strategic hill from the Russian troops whose presence threatened the flank of the Regiment Deutschland. Wisliceny also received the Ritterkreuz on the same day, awarded for his leadership and personal bravery when leading his battalion during the battles for the Kursk salient. The Regimentskommandeur Harmel received his own Ritterkreuz on 31 March 1943 after successfully leading the Deutschland in the successful recapture of Kharkov from the hands of Russian troops in February-March 1943. Author Mark C. Yerger said that during the two yearly visits with Harmel in Lenggries as well as correspondence, Harmel told him the three subordinates in "Das Reich" he admired most for bravery in leadership: Helmuth Schreiber, Heinz Macher and Günther Wisliceny. During his “Deutschland” period the combats in Jelnja-Bogen in 1941, the Rzhev battles of early 1942, and at Kharkov the following year were his hardest combat engagements.

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