Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tohua a Maitla hei Hauptsturmführer a i te Paenga-whawha 1944 ko ia te rangatira o te 1st Battalion o te 45th Regiment o te 20th Waffen Grenadier Division o te SS (1st Estonian). I taua tau ano, i angitu a Maitla me tana roopu ki te aukati i te whakaeke a te ope Whero i Auvere ka whiwhi i te Iron Cross I te akomanga. I te 29 o Hōngongoi, i arahina e ia me tana poari he whakaeke i te
Ko te Pakanga o Tannenberg Raina i whakawhiwhia ai ia ki te Knights Cross i te 23 Akuhata.