Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Beschwitz joined the postwar Bundeswehr in 1956 and retired in 1973 as an Oberst. Bibliography.
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Werner Beschwitz
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Anschluss Medal (8 November 1938) Sudetenland Medal (25 October 1939) Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (22 September 1939) 1st Class (27 May 1940) Wound Badge (1939) in Black (9 November 1943) Panzer Badge in Silver (24 June 1940) II Class (10 December 1943) III Class (5 December 1944) Eastern Front Medal (30 July 1942) German Cross in Gold on 15 December 1941 as Oberleutnant in the 7./Panzer-Regiment 3 Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 July 1944 as Major and commander of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 505.
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March 25, 2011 (aged 96)