Nicolae Tătăranu

Nicolae Tătăranu (3 October 1890, Măicănești, Vrancea County - 13 May 1953, Bucharest) was a Romanian Major General during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded by the Third Reich to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Nicolae Tătăranu served as military attaché in Paris from 1928 to 1931 as well as in Brussels (1929–1931) and Madrid (1930–1931).

Awards

Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st Class
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (17 December 1942)

References

Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients in the military of allies of Nazi Germany

Ion Antonescu Ugo de Carolis Ugo Cavallero Corneliu Dragalina Ioan Dumitrache Petre Dumitrescu (Oak Leaves) Emilio Esteban Infantes Carlo Fecia di Cossato Italo Gariboldi Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia Ermil Gheorghiu Fedele di Giorgio Enzo Grossi Erik Heinrichs József Heszlényi Miklós Horthy Ioan Hristea Mihály von Ibrányi Gusztáv Jány Emanoil Ionescu Mineichi Koga (Oak Leaves) Radu Korne Géza Lakatos Mihail Lascăr (Oak Leaves) Dezső László Horia Macellariu Augustín Malár Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Oak Leaves) Gheorghe Manoliu Giulio Martinat Giovanni Messe Béla Miklós Leonard Mociulschi Agustín Muñoz Grandes (Oak Leaves) Ioan Pălăghiţă Ioan Mihail Racoviţă Edgar Rădulescu Gheorghe Răscănescu Zoltán Szügyi Nicolae Tătăranu Corneliu Teodorini (Oak Leaves) Jozef Turanec Isoroku Yamamoto (Oak Leaves & Swords)

in alphabetical order

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