Career
The Knight"s Cross of the and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Wiscliceny enlisted in the Steamship-Stabswache Berlin in 1933, he was posted in 1938 to the Der Führer Regiment, seeing his first action as a company commander in the Balkans in spring 1941. He spent 1941 to 1943 on the Eastern Front and 1944 in France, fighting in all the battles of the senior Steamship divisions, and being wounded four times.
He was awarded the Knight"s Cross of the for leadership of a battalion during the battles for the Kursk salient in July 1943.
He received the Oak Leaves on 27 December 1944, at the Normandy invasion front. The Swords were awarded for his actions in the Ardennes, Hungary and Austria.
In 1945 he was handed over by the United States Army to the French during investigations into his division"s war crimes at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane, but was released in 1951. He was involved in the deportation of the Hungarian Jews in 1944.
He was tried for war crimes and executed in Bratislava on 4 May 1948.
Knight"s Cross of the with Oak Leaves and Swords Bibliography.
