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German General and Knight's Cross recipients
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Place of birth
Wesel, Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death
13 April 1958 (aged 68 years)
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Place of death
Wiesbaden, Darmstadt Government Region, Hesse, Germany
Age
68 years
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Biography
Curt Gallenkamp (17 February 1890 – 13 April 1958) was a German general (General of the Artillery) in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a convicted war criminal. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.
Gallenkamp surrendered to the British troops in May 1945. He was tried for war crimes for the deaths of British paratroops/commandos and an American pilot. He was sentenced to be hanged in 1947, but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment and was released in 1952.
Awards
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 19 November 1941 as Generalleutnant and commander of 78. Infanterie-Division
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