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Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal
364:) on 1 February. His new unit, which was beginning to assemble in the area west of Berlin, was a division in name only and had relatively few armoured vehicles. It was activated in March 1945 and dispatched to the
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Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders
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in 1914, upon the outbreak of the First World War. He was commissioned a reserve
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decoration. He left the army after the end of the war but in 1936 he joined the
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Mummert later led the 14th Panzer
Reconnaissance Battalion of the reformed
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271:(captain of cavalry). In 1939, he was appointed commander of AA.256, an
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550:] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall.
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to the Knight's Cross, the 107th recipient of this award.
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and was engaged in fighting around the Zoobunker and the
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350:and was promoted to
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