Copies of the telegraph message sent for the attention SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich and the original recommendation for Michael Wittmann’s Knight’s Cross (Ritterkreuz) signed by Divisional Commander SS-Oberführer Theodor Wisch. The telegram provides a detailed summary of Wittmann’s career up to that date, including his destroying 56 enemy tanks. The telex is dated 10th January, and … Continue reading Knight’s Cross Recommendation, 14th January 1944