Hauptmann Erich Löwe photographed in autumn of 1940 after he was decorated with the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Crosses) for his action during the Battle of France as Chef of 3./Panzer-Abteilung 65 which was assigned to the 6. Panzer-Division. He will become the commander of the schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501 in September 1943. Löwe went missing after he was forced to change tanks when his own was knocked out during a counterattack in Vitebsk area on 23 December 1943. He was posthumously promoted to Oberstleutnant and awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knight’s Cross on 8 February 1944.
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