EK 1939 fake recipients

[Valgor]

^{Some dealers offer fake crosses. But what about fake recipients?}

Possibly, fake crosses are meant for fake recipients like these.

Some will surely know the story. It thought it was to good not to put here.

Since the end of World War II, numerous people have claimed to be unrecognized recipients of the Knight's Cross. The majority of these "recipients" are lacking any evidence to sustain their claims and are thus denied the right to consider themselves "legal recipients". There are two cases where the legal proof of the award exists however the recipients do not. These two "legally correct" recipients are G?nther Nowak and Heinrich Scherhorn.[6]

^{1.G?nther Nowak, Hitlerjunge, was awarded the Knight's Cross on 14 February 1945 for the destruction of eleven tanks in Hindenburg, Oberschlesien. It was always assumed that he was the youngest recipient of the Knight's Cross; however, G?nther Nowak never really existed ? a deserting Commander of the Volkssturm was caught and claimed that, after the retreat of the Wehrmacht, he had destroyed five tanks single-handedly. Because of this, he was taken to a Gauleiter. Fearing that his lie would be unveiled, he created the story of G?nther Nowak in order to lessen his own "feat". This report was then sent to Reichsleiter Martin Bormann. Bormann immediately awarded the German Cross in Gold to the Volkssturm-Commander Sachs and the Knight's Cross to Nowak.}

2.Oberstleutnant Heinrich Scherhorn and the "Kampfgruppe Scherhorn" had never existed.

does anybody know a little more about nr2?

Edited March 12, 2009 by Valgor