 All the men were exhausted from days and nights of continuous fighting.The Frenchmen of the "Nordland" had proved particularly good at destroying tanks, of the 108 Soviet tanks knocked out in the central district, they had accounted for about half of them.That afternoon the last two Knight's Crosses of the Third Reich were awarded; one went to Frenchman Eugéne Vaulôt, who had personally destroyed eight tanks, the other was awarded to SS-"Sturmbannführer" Friedrich Herzig, the commander of the 503 SS Heavy Panzer Battalion.