Date of birth:

July 18th, 1921 (Gelsenkirchen, Germany)

Date of death:

October 29th, 1944 (Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Bug, Poland)

Buried on:

Modlin Fortress Cemetery

Service number:

SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

00.10.1943: SS-Rottenführer, Gruppenführer, 10. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 5 "Thule", 3. SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf' - Kirovohrad - Krivoi
28.10.1944: severely WIA during the Battle of Warsaw and evacuated to a Lazarett in Modlin
29.10.1944: SS-Uscha, DOW in the Lazarett Modlin / Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Bug, Poland

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

August 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

November 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

November 14th, 1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

SS- Rottenführer (Corporal)

Unit:

Gruppenführer, 10. Kompanie, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 5 "Thule", 3. SS-Panzer-Division 'Totenkopf'

Awarded on:

December 16th, 1943

On 14.11.1943 the Soviets attacked the lines of the 10./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 5 "Thule", and all the officers and NCOs of the company were killed or wounded. In these desperate circumstances Swierzinski took over command of the unit and led these remnants in a desperate fight. Despite the odds they were able to recapture the high ground they had lost. Swierzinski himself was wounded in the fighting but hung on, personally manning a machine gun. The company displayed the same courage the division had shown before at Demjansk, and its survival was significant for many other units apart from its own. Swierzinski was thus awarded the Knight’s Cross.

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