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 Hauptsturmführer Siegfried Brosow 

( Born: December 10 , 1918 in Steinfelde in East Prussia - Died: November 18 , 2008 in Oberkotzau )

Sturmbannführer (Storm Unit Leader/Major), in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. This was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Siegfried Brosow joined the SS-VT(auxiliary) in 1937 and was issued the SS service number SS 353059. He was selected to be an officer and sent to the SS-Junkerschule at Brunswick from 1939 to 1940, while he was at the school he joined the NSDAP in December 1939 being given the party number NSDAP-Nr: 7 145 966. During the Battle of France Untersturmführer (Storm Leader/Second Lieutenatnt) Brosow was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class for bravery and the Iron Cross 1st class, during the first assault on Moscow and was promoted to Obersturmführer (Senior Storm Leader/First Lieutenant) on 30 January 1942.

He returned to the Das Reich Pionier battalion in January 1943 as the commander of the 1st Company, until he became the commander of the Divisional staff in October 1943.

During the rebuilding of Das Reich in 1944 he became the temporary Pionier Battalion Commander and assumed full command during the Normandy Campaign. He led the Battalion until February 1945 when he was reassigned to the SS-Pionierschule as the commander of training and remained here until captured by the Russians in May 1945.

Werner Mölders 

(18 March 1913 – 22 November 1941)

Erich Alfred Hartmann

Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein

Legendary Panzer Ace Michael Wittmann

Michael Wittmann was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armored Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. 

Born: April 22, 1914, Vogelthal, Dietfurt, Germany

Died: August 8, 1944, Normandy, France

Place of burial: La Cambe German War Cemetery, La Cambe, France

Spouse: Hildegard Burmester (m. 1944–1944)

Parents: Johann Wittmann, Ursula Lachermayer

Awards: Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords

Battles/wars: World War II > Eastern Front > Operation Barbarossa;

Wittmann is credited with 135 tank kills. Hhe achieved 120 of these in 1943, operating a Tiger I tank on the Eastern Front.

Kurt Peters (7 August 1914 – 24 July 1957) Braunschweig Fürstenfeldbruck West Germany Service/branch Balkenkreuz (Iron Cross) Luftwaffe Bundeswehrkreuz (Iron Cross) Luftwaffe Rank Major (Wehrmacht) Major (Bundeswehr) Unit: Aufklärungsgruppe 22 Commands held: JG 300, JG 302 Battles/wars: World War II Defense of the Reich Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Kurt Peters rests in the war cemetery in Niederzier-Huchem-Stammeln. In November 1943. Peters was appointed Gruppenkommandeur (group commander) of II. Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 300 (JG 300—300th Fighter Wing). On 21 June 1944, Peters claimed three aerial victories. His first two claims of the day were in fact Herausschüsse (separation shots)—a heavy bomber forced to separate from its combat box which was counted as an aerial victory. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber was forced from its combat box southeast of Berlin at 10:07. The second B-24 bomber was then forced from formation at 10:15 20 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of Berlin. At 10:20, he shot down a B-24 bomber near Adlershof. On 29 June, Peters was shot down in his Focke Wulf Fw 190 A-7 (Werknummer 340303—factory number) near Laucha an der Unstrut and Naumburg. He bailed out and was wounded. Command of II. Gruppe was then transferred to Major Alfred Lindenberger.