Friedrich Bernhard

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Friedrich Bernhard (? - December 29, 1945), was a German Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry, serving during World War II as a Panzer commander and a recipient of the German Cross in Gold on 17 March 1944[1]. Captured by the Red Army, he was sentenced to death by a Soviet tribunal at Bryansk on December 29, 1945 for atrocities committed in the Bryansk area, and hanged on that day.

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  1. ^ Patzwall 2001, p. 39
  • Patzwall, Klaus D. and Scherzer, Veit. Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 - 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II. Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, 2001. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
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