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| Dietl, Eduard
- German Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords Iron Cros EK 1 & II |
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| Rank:
Generaloberst |
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| Cross
Class: German Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords Iron Cros EK 1 & II |
| Branch
of Service: Heer |
Description
of Action: Dietl commanded the German 3rd Mountain Division that participated in the German invasion of Norway on April 9 and 10, 1940. Most of this division was landed at Narvik by a German naval force of ten destroyers, commanded by Commodore Friedrich Bonte, on 9 April 1940. British naval forces led by the battleship HMS Warspite destroyed all ten destroyers that had ferried Dietl's troops to Narvik and managed to recapture the town, but Dietl's mountaineers withdrew into the hills and later retook the town when Britain abandoned her efforts to evict the Germans from Norway due to German success on the western front (the French-German border).
A convinced Nazi and one of Hitler's favorite generals, he was the first German soldier to receive, on 19 June 1940, the oak leaves cluster to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Ref Wikipedia |
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Date: Mar 10, 2009 |
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