Dutch Waffen-SS volunteer Gerardus Mooyman is awarded the Knight’s Cross for single-handedly destroying 13 Soviet tanks – February 20, 1943. Mooyman is the first non-German to be awarded the Knight’s Cross.

Dutch Waffen-SS volunteer Gerardus Mooyman is awarded the Knight’s Cross for single-handedly destroying 13 Soviet tanks – February 20, 1943. Mooyman is the first non-German to be awarded the Knight’s Cross.