SS-Brigadefhrer Jurgen Wagner, winner of the Knight’s Cross and commander of 23.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Nederland”, talking to some young men on the occasion of their decoration with the Iron Cross 2nd Class for their bravery in combat, may 1944.
Involved in anti-partisan operations in Croatia in the autumn of 1943, it was transferred to the Leningrad area on January 1944 and took part in the battles around Narva in the summer.
All of them are wearing the(Erbesenmuster) M44 HBT camouflage, except the man standing in the back who wears a (Platanenmuster)”Plane tree” #5 smock.