Background
Harry Polewacz was born on the 31 March 1909 in Berlin.
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Career
He volunteered to join the Steamship and was posted to the Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler in command of the 10th Company. In late 1940 he posted to the new Steamship Division being formed, the Steamship Division (mot) Wiking, and given command of the III. Battalion, 9th Steamship Panzer Grenadier Regiment Germania. He was awarded the Knight"s Cross in December 1942, when in command of the III. Battalion, Steamship Regiment Nordland.
Polewacz was killed in action on the 12 January 1943, near Orlovsky, Russia.
10th Company, Leibstandarte Steamship Adolf Hitler
III.Battalion, 9th Steamship Panzer Grenadier Regiment Germania, 5th Steamship Panzer Division Wiking
III.Battalion, Steamship Regiment Nordland, 5th Steamship Panzer Division Wiking
I.Battalion, Steamship Panzer Grenadier Regiment Nordland, 5th Steamship Panzer Division Wiking
10th Steamship Panzer Grenadier Regiment Westland, 5th Steamship Panzer Division Wiking.
Achievements
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He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class in September 1939, during the Polish Campaign and the Iron Cross 1st class in June 1940 during the Battle of France. Polewacz next participated in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, where he was awarded the German Cross in Gold in December 1941.
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January 12, 1943 (aged 33)