__NOTOC__ Curt Gallenkamp (17 February 1890 – 13 April 1958) was a German general (

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) in the

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during

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and a convicted war criminal. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of

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. 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 ''

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'' and commander of 78. Infanterie-DivisionFellgiebel 2000, p. 159.

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