Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz was a German officer of aristocratic descent in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
Strachwitz in June 1943
Fort Barraux, 2011
Troops loyal to the government at the Silesian Station, 1919.
The ancestral home of the Strachwitz family, the palace in Kamień Śląski in 2006.
The Battle of Narva was a World War II military campaign, lasting from 2 February to 10 August 1944, in which the German Army Detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for possession of the strategically important Narva Isthmus.
German soldiers defending the western bank of the Narva River, with the fortress of Ivangorod on the eastern side
The 18 September 1944 proclamation of the Government of Estonia in Riigi Teataja (Government gazette)
Narva after artillery and air raids, 1944
Battle of Tannenberg Line, 26–29 July 1944