Gerhard Wilck
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Colonel Gerhard Wilck was the German commander who defended the German city Aachen in the Battle of Aachen. He surrendered on 22 October 1944 against the orders of Hitler, this after a stubborn defence and bitter urban warfare.
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- Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose (ISBN 0-684-84801-5)
- The Oxford Companion to World War II by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-280666-1