DUTCH SS 4TH PANZER HANS HOFFRITZ SIGNED PHOTO

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DUTCH WAFEN SS PANZER VOLUNTEER HANS HOFFRITZ, NICELY SIGNED AND DATED, #HANS HOFFRITZ# THE FIRST NON GERMAN TO WIN THE KNIGHTS CROSS

HANS HOFFRITZ
(1914 – 1974) Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS, serving in the 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Netherlands, and was sent to the eastern front as an anti tank gun commander. In the battle at Lake Ladoga he destroyed 13 tanks, and for this action became the first non-German to be awarded the Knight’s Cross. By the end of his service he was credited with destroying 23 Soviet tanks. Rare