00:00The last three confirmed awards took place on the 8th, May 1945, the last day of World War II in
00:07Europe, as was the one awarded to Major Wilhelm Broeckhoff, born in Essen on September 3, 1907, commander of the
00:16Panzer Artillery Regiment Brandenburg, for his service during the final battles on the main line of resistance west of the
00:23Lusatian Heath.
00:25Broeckhoff passed away on July 16, 1971, in Bochum-Linden and was buried with military honors in Moyers.
00:34The next one to be awarded on May 8 was awarded to Captain Friedrich Müller-Rochholz, born on February 16,
00:441914, in Solingen, commander of the Panzer Assault Engineer Battalion Brandenburg in the Panzer Grenadier Division Brandenburg, for his achievements
00:53during the battles on the Nysa Front.
00:55He was also in Soviet captivity until October 17, 1955, and afterwards was a longtime head of the U, Social
01:05Department, at the Eschweiler Mining Association.
01:08Müller-Rochholz passed away on May 5, 2002, in Herzogenrath.
01:14The last awarding of the Knight's Cross to a member of the Brandenburg unit on the 8th, May 1945, for
01:21which there is no photograph, was awarded to the officer born on September 19, 1913, the major and commander of
01:29the Army Flak Artillery Battalion Brandenburg in Panzer Corps Grossdeutschland.
01:34Werner Voshege, for his defensive success with only three 8.8 guns in 1945, during the defensive battles at Verkirk
01:44on the Nysaie.
01:46According to one source, Voshege died on August 25, 1948, in Kirchgandern, Thuringia.
01:56For the sake of completeness, I would also like to mention the awards ceremony that took place on August 12,
02:021944, which only about 272 times awarded Knight's Cross of the War, Merit Cross with Swords, to the on the
02:1330th.
02:14March 1911, in Dungen, Osterrode District, born Fahnenjunker Oberwachtmeister in the Festnachrichten Reconnaissance Office, 10 in the Amt Auslandabwehr, Richard
02:26Volkmann.
02:27He passed away on April 12, 1965.
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