PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Bruins, Derk Elsko
Date of birth: March 20th, 1923 (Vlagtwedde/Groningen, the Netherlands)
Date of death:  February 5th, 1986 (Dollendorf, Germany)
Nationality:  Dutch
BIOGRAPHY: 
Derk Elsko Bruins was born in Vlagtwedde on 20th March 1923. In 1941 he became a member of the Dutch National Socialist Party, the N.S.B. and entered the Waffen-SS as volunteer on 26th April 1941.
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: SS- Rottenführer
Unit: Geschützführer I. / SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 54 "Nederland"
Awarded on: August 23rd, 1944
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
 
     
ALLGEMEINES STURM ABZEICHEN OHNE ZAHLEN
 
     
VERWUNDETENABZEICHEN 1939 IN SCHWARZ
 
     
MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)
 
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Information source(s):   - FELLGIEBEL, W.P., Elite of theThird Reich, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003.
- Krätschmer E.G., Die Ritterkreuzträger des Waffen-SS
- Twentsch Nieuwsblad, vrijdag 1 september 1944, 2e jaargang, No. 245
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