PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Grotz, Georg
Date of birth: February 5th, 1921 (Steinbach, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE
Awarded on: July 28th, 1943
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: August 28th, 1944
 
     
NAHKAMPFSPANGE IN GOLD
Rank: Obergefreiter der Reserve (Corporal of Reserves)
Unit: 6. / Grenadier-Regiment 62 / 7.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on: October 15th, 1944
Details: Presented on 12th December 1944 by Heinrich Himmler at the 6th formal group award ceremony.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Obergefreiter der Reserve (Corporal of Reserves)
Unit: 6. / Grenadier-Regiment 62 / 7.Infanterie-Division
Awarded on: November 27th, 1944
 
 
 
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Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Dörr M., Die träger der Nahkampfspange in Gold, Heer- Luftwaffe- Waffen-SS 1943-1945, Biblio Verlag Bisendorf, 2006.
- Durante T.M., The German Close Combat Clasp of World War II, Philippe De Bock, Tom Durante, Pascal Huysmans, Belgium, 2007, ISBN 9789081230117
- Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001
- Internationales Militaria Magazine, September-Oktober 2000, Nr. 98, Verlag Heinz Nickel, Zweibrücken, 2000
- Besitzzeugnis NKSiG
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