1.Komp.12th SS HITLERJUGEND AUFKLARUNGS ABTEILUNG CITATIONS SS-STURMBANNFUHRER BREMER SIGNAURE

Two citations to SS-Sturmann Hans Merkel SS-Aufkl.Abt.12 first citation for the black wound badge for a wound inflicted on August 31 '44 signed by hospital doctor on the 18 Sept. '44, second citation also dated 31st Aug. is the Panzerkampfebzeichen in bronze, signed by SS-Stbf.Bremer as battalion Kommandeur. also included is an archive copy of his EKII entry awarded 10 July '44 (Hill 112) great research opportunity with such with such detail known.
Bremer served in the Polish Campaign, the Battle of France and the Balkans. For his service in the Polish and Western campaigns he was awarded the Iron Cross both first and second class. After the end of the Balkan campaign Bremer was promoted to Obersturmführer (Senior Storm Leader/First Lieutenant) and was given command of the 1st Motor Cycle Company of the Reconnaissance Battalion.7 He was awarded the Knight's Cross in the early days of Operation Barbarossa the invasion of the Soviet Union. He stayed with the LSSAH until June 1943 when he was given the command of the 3rd Battalion of the 26th Panzer Grenadier Regiment in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. . In April 1944, he became the commander of the 12th SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, in Belgium which covered the Division's left flank during the Normandy Invasion on the outskirts of Caen

During the Normandy Invasion and the fighting against The Royal Winnipeg Rifles at Putot-en-Bessin, Bremer's direct command murdered 18 Canadian Prisoners. He was trapped with his Battalion in the Falaise Gap but was finally able to withdraw to the Maas, covering the retreat of the 5th Panzer Army for which he was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross.

He was next involved in the Ardennes Offensive and Operation Spring Awakening in Hungary in 1945 and ended the war in the area of St Poelten
Post war
He was held as a prisoner of war by the French Government from July 1948 to 1954, when he was released he moved to Denia in Spain with his wife Almut and his son Gerd. Bremer died on 29 October 1989 in Alicante, Spain

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