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CURIOSITIES OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR. SOVIET JEW HITLER SEMYON KONSTANTINOVICH
Hitler, while defending Hill 174.5 in the Tiraspol fortified region, destroyed the enemy with his fire for eight days. As a gunner of a heavy machine gun, he supported his platoon's attack with fire. Being surrounded and wounded, Comrade Hitler kept firing until he used up his ammunition, and then, without giving up his weapon, made it out to his own. For his feat Hitler was awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Medal of Honor is made of sterling silver. It is a source of special pride for those awarded because the medal is awarded for specific personal heroic deeds, whereas some others are awarded for group participation in an event.
A scan of a copy of the "reward sheet" describing the heroic deed.
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Semyon Vasilyevich Hretsov, the only holder of six Medals of Honor. He went to the front as a volunteer in June 1941. In the winter of 1942 he was severely wounded, shell-shocked and had frostbite on his legs. For health reasons he might well have been discharged, but he stayed in the army and continued to fight as a hospital attendant.
Under Leningrad, where the battles were protracted and bloody, Semyon Hretsov performed most of his feats. He carried more than 130 soldiers and officers of the Red Army from the battlefield under fire of the enemy - most of them with weapons! And in total during the years of fighting the corpsman Gretsov rendered medical aid to several thousand people, more than a hundred of them owe their lives to him.

The six-time award of the Medal "For Courage" is a unique fact. Among other multiple awardees of the medal there are 15 cases of fivefold awarding and several hundred cases of fourfold awarding.
In addition, the Red Army man Gretsov took part in attacks and counterattacks on the enemy and destroyed Hitlerites. He went through the whole war, reached Berlin and in addition to six medals "For Courage" was awarded the medals "For the Capture of Berlin" and "For Victory over Germany". After the war he worked as a stucco-mason and was an unusually modest man. For a long time the fellow countrymen didn't even know that a unique war veteran lived near them. On the right side of the uniform you can see three stitched ribbons indicating a wounds. The badge was a strip of rectangular shape, 43 mm long and 5-6 mm wide, made of silk lace of dark red color (in case of light wounds) or golden (yellow) (in case of heavy wounds).
 
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