Helmuth Weidling
Helmuth Weidling, Army Lieutenant General, born on November 2, 1891 in Halberstadt, commander of the 86th Infantry Division, commander of the 51st Panzer Corps and 56th Panzer Corps, last commandant of Berlin, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, died of a heart attack on November 17, 1955 in a Soviet prisoner of war camp at Wladimir (southeast of Moscow), said in April 1945 of the Hitler Youth: “You cannot sacrifice these children for a cause that is already lost.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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Walter Münch. Walter Münch was born on November 2, 1918 in Apolda, a town in central Thuringia, Germany. He served with the company during the fighting near Kharkov in February-March 1943 and received a Panzer Battle Badge in Silver after the campaign. SS-Unterscharführer Münch served on Tiger 913 in the First Platoon during the Kursk Offensive. He received an Iron Cross Second Class on July 20, 1943. He also won an Iron Cross First Class during the war. (Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 & 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943 )