A collection of German WWII Nazi Knight's Cross Recipient Collectables sold on our online timed auction. 100s of signatures and photos as well as a Knight's Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster and WWI-II Iron Cross and other awards. This auction will feature 225 lots and we will be loading images and full descriptions all month, check back often! Remember the auction is "as is/where is" with no returns allowed - please check out the multiple photos and description before bidding. Lots of good items, bid early, bid often, bid high and good luck!...more

An original Imperial German Military WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class in very good condition....more

An original Imperial German Military WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class in very good condition....more

An original Imperial German Military WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class in very good condition....more

An original Imperial German Military WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class in very good condition....more

An original Nazi German Military WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class in very good condition....more

Osprey "Knight's Cross and Oak-Leaves Recipients 1941-45" by Gordon Williamson in very good condition....more

Osprey "Knight's Cross, Oak-Leaves and Swords Recipients 1941-45" by Gordon Williamson in very good condition....more

Arthur Büssecke was an Oberleutnant der Reserve in the Luftwaffe during World War II and destroyed 20 Soviet Tanks and 11 Artillery pices at Stalingrad. He fought in the Battle of the Netherlands, Battle of Belgium, Battle of France, Battle of Voronezh and the Battle of Stalingrad. Büssecke was captured by Russian troops, but escaped only to be captured by American troops. He was released in June 1945. Awards include Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class, 1st Class, Wound Badge (1939) in Black and Silver, Anti-Aircraft Flak Battle Badge, Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 December 1942 as Unteroffizier and Geschützführer (gun leader) in the 2. / Flak-Regiment 49 (motorisiert). Two photos - one price....more

Josef Wilhelm Brandner was a highly decorated panzer ace in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was one of only 882 recipients who were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He took part in the Annexation of the Sudetenland, fought in the Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa, Battle of Kursk Battle of Kiev, Cherkassy Pocket and the Courland Pocket. Awards include the Sudetenland Medal with Prague Castle Bar, Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class, 1st Class, Eastern Front Medal, Wound Badge (1939) in Black, in Silver, Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, German Cross in Gold, Honour Roll Clasp of the Army, General Assault Badge (100), Armband Courland, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves as Hauptmann in Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 912, 846th Oak Leaves on 26 April 1945 as Major in Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 912, and Close Combat Clasp in Bronze ...more

Otto Carius is a former German tank ace within the German Army who fought during World War II and is credited with destroying more than 150 tanks. Carius had been drafted twice, but sent was home as "Not fit for service at present underweight!". But in May 1940, Carius was finally drafted into the 104th Infantry Replacement Battalion. Following training, he volunteered for the Panzer Corps. Carius learned the fundamentals of tank warfare at Putlos in Holstein as a member of the 7th Panzer Replacement Battalion. His unit was integrated into the newly formed 21st Panzer Regiment and in June 1941 was sent to East Prussia. He experienced his first battle as a loader in a Panzer 38(t) during Operation Barbarossa in late June 1941. It was during this operation that Carius suffered wounds from a round that struck his tank. In 1943, Carius transferred to the Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 502 (502 heavy tank battalion). This unit fought at the Leningrad front and then in the area of Narva, Estonia (Battle of Narva). Carius was severely wounded on 24 July 1944 while reconnoitering a village on a motorcycle ahead of his tanks. Until that day, he was unofficially running the 2nd company of 502nd; however, he officially became the commander of 2nd company on the same day he was shot through the leg, arm, 4 bullets in the back and one through the neck. He subsequently became the commander of a Jagdtiger company of the 512th Heavy Antitank Battalion in the West at the beginning of 1945. On 8 March 1945, without finishing its training, 2nd company was directed to the front line near Siegburg. It then took part in the defense of the River Rhine and eventually surrendered to the US Army on 15 April 1945. Carius's final tally was 150+ tanks, plus a similar number of antitank guns - the majority on the Eastern Front. ...more

Albert Kerscher was a highly decorated Oberfeldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II. A panzer ace from schwere Panzer Abteilung 502, he achieved his 100th kill in defending the Neuhauser Forest near Pillau, East Prussia in April 1945. On 22nd July 1944, 1st Lieutenant Otto Carius (see previous lot), with his company of eight Tigers advanced towards the village on Malinava in order to halt the Russian advance. Carius and Kerscher took a Kubelwagen in order to check if the village was already in Russian hands. They discovered that Malinava had already been taken by the enemy. Carius recognised that the Russian tanks in the village were only advance troops waiting for the main force to arrive. He decided to recapture the village before the arrival of more Russian tanks. Carius returned to his company for briefing and explained his plan to take the village. He decided to attack the village with only two Tigers because there was only one road leading to the village and it meant very risky business. Six Tigers remained in the reserve while the Tigers of Carius and Kerscher moved towards the village of Malinava. Speed was the essence of the plan to take the Russians by surprise and immobilise their tanks. When they were about to enter the village, they could see two T-34/85 tanks rotating their turrets in their direction. Immediately Kerscher, following Carius at about 150 metres, fired two shots in rapid succession, and destroyed the two enemy tanks. This was the first time that Carius had encountered one of the latest JS-1 heavy tanks. The silhouette of the new heavy Russian tank was somewhat similar to that of the Tiger II, and Carius got confused at first but after a little hesitation, ordered his crew to fire at once, and the JS-1 burst into flames. Afterwards they realised that the entire battle was over in about twenty minutes. In such a short time, the two Tigers of Carius and Kerscher had knocked out 17 Russian tanks including the new JS-1. The Russians were taken by surprise and their quick and accurate perception of the situation were the main factors that led the two Tigers to victory. The achievement of Carius and Kerscher at Malinava is on the same level as the famous action of Michael Wittmann at Villers Bocage. He ended the war with a total score of 107....more

Michael Pössinger was a German highly decorated Gebirgsjäger and one of only 98 soldiers to have been awarded both the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and Close Combat Clasp in Gold. He was also awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He is highly praised for his role in saving a Jewish family from deportation in Hungary, against the direct orders of a noncommissioned SS Officer. Pössinger also a Gold and Silver Medalists in Bob-Sled the 1950s Winter Olympics. He fought in the Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Balkans Campaign and Operation Barbarossa. Awards include Wound Badge in Gold, Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, Five Tank Destruction Badges for Individual Combatants, Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class, 1st Class, German Cross in Gold as Oberleutnant in the 6./Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98, Close Combat Clasp in Gold, 1945 for 50 days in close combat, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves Knight's Cross as Leutnant of the Reserves and company commander in the 16./Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98, 759th Oak Leaves on 28 February 1945 as Major and commander of the I./Grenadier-Regiment 1123 and Romanian Order of the Crown, Cross of Merit on ribbon....more

Josef Jakwert was a German officer who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves to recognise extreme battlefield bravery while a platoon leader in the Divisions-Panzer-Jäger-Kompanie 361 and awarded Oak Leaves in February 1945 as Lieutenant and platoon leader in the 2./Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 1562. Other awards include the Iron Cross 2nd Class, 1st Class, Wound Badge in Black, in Silver, Panzer Badge in Silver, Eastern Front Medal, as well as the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. ...more

Hanns Laengenfelder was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II and was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak. He was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery and successful military leadership. Hanns Laengenfelder was captured by Soviet troops in May 1945 and was held until 1955. His World War II battles include the Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa, Second Battle of Kharkov, Lower Dnieper Offensive, Uman–Botosani Offensive, Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, and the Battle of Debrecen...more

Julius Alfred "Papa" Ringel was an Austrian-born German General of Mountain Troops (General der Gebirgstruppen). He commanded the 3. Gebirgs-Division, 5. Gebirgs-Division, LXIX Armeekorps, Wehrkreis XI and the Korps Ringel. In 1940. he was promoted to Major General as a commander of the newly established 5. Gebirgs-Division. The division saw its first action in the spring of 1941 in the Balkans Campaign, operations code name Marita and Merkur. Following the operations in Greece, the division distinguished itself on Crete, where it took part in the battles to secure the island from the British. For his outstanding leadership during these operations Ringel was awarded the prestigious Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 13 June 1941. In November 1941, Ringel’s division was posted back to Germany for rest and refitting. However, only four months later it was sent back to action on the Eastern Front. Ringel commanded the 3. Gebirgs-Division through the operations southwest of Leningrad, where it played a major role in the defeat of the Volkhov Front; an achievement for which Julius Ringel was promoted to Lieutenant General and in October 1943 also received the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. After nearly two years in Russia, Ringel was ordered to move his Division to Italy and in December 1943 it arrived on the Gustav Line near the town of Cassino. He stayed in Italy for another four months, before he received a new assignment and became a commander of the LXIX Armeekorps in Croatia. In June, Ringel was once again promoted, this time to full General of the mountain troops and put in charge of the Military District Salzburg (Wehrkreis XVIII (Salzburg)) from which the Korps Ringel were formed. He held this appointment until the war's end. ...more

Otto-Ernst Remer was a German Wehrmacht officer who played a decisive role in stopping the 1944 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler. During the war he was wounded nine times in combat. After the war he co-founded the Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP) and advanced Holocaust denial. He is considered the "Godfather" of the post-war Nazi underground. By the time of the attack on Poland, in 1939, he was an Oberleutnant in a motorised infantry company, and went on to serve in the Balkans Campaign, as well as in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. By April 1942, he was a battalion commander, and he joined the Infantry Regiment Grosseutschland and his troops, mounted in halftracks, covered the withdrawal of an entire Waffen-SS tank corps during the fighting at Kharkov. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his service as battalion commander, and in November 1943, he was awarded the Oak leaves to the Knight's Cross for leadership at Krivoi Rog, which was presented by Adolf Hitler personally. In March 1944, Remer and his men successfully stopped the 20 July plot to seize control of the German government, following an assassination attempt on Hitler. Otto Ernst Remer first heard of it through members of the Nazi Party and waited for official word of Hitler's fate. Remer heard both rumours that Hitler survived and rumours saying he died in the blast. That evening Claus Von Stauffenberg was given control of Germany and its power because the military was convinced that Hitler did not survive the assassination attempt. Stauffenberg and his staff had Remer arrest several Nazi officials, claiming that they were arming defense from a mutiny. Upon being ordered by General Paul von Hase to arrest Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, Remer went to Goebbels' office to do so, pistol in hand. However, Goebbels used his oratory skills to dissuade Remer from arresting him, insisting instead that Hitler was still alive. When Remer asked for proof, Goebbels picked up the phone and asked to be put through to Hitler. Within the minute, Hitler was on the phone, and Goebbels handed the receiver to Remer. Hitler asked Remer whether he recognised his voice, whereupon Remer answered that he did. Hitler then gave Remer orders to crush the plot with his troops. Remer guiltily realised that he and his men actually were taking orders from the mutineers and unwittingly supporting it. Remer and his troops reversed the results from given orders from the plotters. Slowly the plotters were stripped of controls from Germany thus confusing the plotters and postponing the mutiny to figure out the confusion. Then Remer went to the Berlin Nazi base and arrested the plotters including Stauffenberg. Friedrich Fromm had the plotters executed but Remer unsuccessfully tried to dissuade Fromm since Remer was told to keep the plotters alive. That same night Remer was promoted two ranks to Oberst (colonel). Remer went on to command an expanded Führer Begleit Brigade, a field unit formed from a Grossdeutschland cadre, in East Prussia and then transferred to the west for the Ardennes Offensive,suffering high casualties. He was eventually captured by American troops, and remained a prisoner until 1947.Remer's Socialist Reich Party, which he had co-founded in 1950, was banned in 1952, after it had gathered about 360,000 supporters in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and won 16 seats in the state parliament. Main issues of the party included Holocaust denial, where it accused the U.S. of planting fake gas chambers and films about concentration camps, seesaw politics, and ending Germany's puppet status with the United States. With the party banned, Remer faced criminal charges from the German government as being the successor party to the Nazis, but fled to Egypt. Arriving in Egypt, he served as an advisor to Gamal Abdel Nasser and worked with fellow Nazis proliferating weapon technology to Arab countries....more

Kuno von Meyer was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He took part in the Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa, Battle of Bialystok–Minsk, Battle of Kiev, Battle of Stalingrad, Operation Overlord, Falaise pocket, and the Lower Silesian Offensive. He was awarded the Knight's Cross on 26 November 1944 as Major and commander of I./Panzer-Regiment 24 and the 795th Oak Leaves on 23 March 1945 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Panzer-Regiment "Coburg" in the Panzer-Brigade 103. ...more

Prof. em. Dr. Bodo Spranz was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II and one of the leading researchers of preclassic meso-American history. Upon successful completion of his training, he was assigned to Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 185 as a Zugführer with the Heeresgruppe Nord on the Eastern Front. In 1941, he was transferred to Schweinfurt as a Batterieoffizier with the Sturmgeschütz Ersatz- und Ausbildungsabteilung 200. He was once again serving on the Eastern Front between 1942 and 1943 as a Zugführer and later Batteriechef with Sturmgeschützabteilung 185.On 1 April 1942 he was promoted to Oberleutnant. For a short time he returned to the Sturmgeschütz Ersatz- und Ausbildungsabteilung 200 at Schweinfurt but transferred back to the Eastern Front on 2 June 1943 as a Batteriechef with Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 237. As a consequence of being decorated with the Knights Cross and the Oakleaves, both on 3 October 1943, he received a promotion to Hauptmann. He served with the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 237 until 2 April 1944, after which time he was assigned as Hörsaalleiter with the Sturmgeschütz-schule at Magdeburg. From the beginning of 1945 until the end of the war, Bodo Spranz was assigned as an Ordonnanzoffizier (Aide-de-camp) with the Chef Generalstab des Heeres, Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, with the 29. Panzergrenadier-Division in Italy and finally with Army Commander General Wenck in Berlin. He was captured by the Americans on 6–7 May 1945, trying to escape Soviet captivity and transferred to a British POW camp until his release. Other awards include the Iron Cross 2nd Class, 1st Class, Wound Badge in Black, in Silver, in Gold, Eastern Front Medal, 4 (!)Tank Destruction Badges for Individual Combatants, General Assault Badge with 25 Numers, and the German Cross in Gold...more