Eastern Front: SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (left, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer" / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") congratulates SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (with arm sling, Kommandant Tiger S11 and Zugführer in 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") for having scored the division's 2,000th tank kill near the Dniepr river (according to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon). The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz on 1 November 1943. The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger "S22" in the background shows the symbol of the 8th Company, the Chyort ("little devil" in Slavic culture) and the "Inverted letter Fu" (倒福 taofu / dàofú), believed to bring good luck in Chinese culture.
Eastern Front: SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (left, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer" / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") congratulates SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (with arm sling, Kommandant Tiger S11 and Zugführer in 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") for having scored the division's 2,000th tank kill near the Dniepr river (according to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon). The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz on 1 November 1943. The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger "S22" in the background shows the symbol of the 8th Company, the Chyort ("little devil" in Slavic culture) and the "Inverted letter Fu" (倒福 taofu / dàofú), believed to bring good luck in Chinese culture.
Eastern Front: SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (center, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer" / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") congratulates SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (with arm sling, Kommandant Tiger S11 and Zugführer in 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") for having scored the division's 2,000th tank kill (according to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon). The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz on 1 November 1943. The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger "S22" in the background shows the symbol of the 8th Company, the Chyort ("little devil" in Slavic culture) and the "Inverted letter Fu" (倒福 taofu / dàofú), believed to bring good luck in Chinese culture.
Eastern Front: SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (right, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer" / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") congratulates SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (with arm sling, Kommandant Tiger S11 and Zugführer in 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") for having scored the division's 2,000th tank kill (according to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon). The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz on 1 November 1943.
SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (Kommandant Tiger S22 / 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 / 2.SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich") posing with his Tiger tank after scoring the division's 2,000th tank kill (on 31 October 1943). The picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz one day later, on 1 November 1943.
2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich" celebration in the Eastern Front, on the occasion of the Division's 2,000th tank kill by tank commander Hans Soretz, 1 November 1943. This picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz and it shows the Divisionskommandeur SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Walter Krüger (center) with SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (left, Kommandant Tiger S22 / 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich") and SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (right, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer"). According to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon.
2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich" celebration in the Eastern Front, on the occasion of the Division's 2,000th tank kill by tank commander Hans Soretz, 1 November 1943. This picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz and it shows the Divisionskommandeur SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Walter Krüger (center) with SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (left, Kommandant Tiger S22 / 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich") and SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (right, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer"). According to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon.
2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich" celebration in the Eastern Front, on the occasion of the Division's 2,000th tank kill by tank commander Hans Soretz, 1 November 1943. This picture was taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Willi Merz and it shows the Divisionskommandeur SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Walter Krüger (center) with SS-Oberscharführer Hans Soretz (left, Kommandant Tiger S22 / 8.Kompanie / II.Abteilung / SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 "Das Reich") and SS-Oberscharführer Adolf Peichl (right, Zugführer in 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer"). According to author Ernst-Günther Krätschmer, Peichl himself was credited with achieving the division's 1,000th tank kill using hand-held weapon.
Source :
"Face of Courage, The 98 Men Who Received the Knight's Cross and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold" by Florian Berger
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