__NOTOC__ Wolf-Dietrich von Xylander (9 April 1903 – 15 February 1945) was a German general during

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. He was a recipient of the

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Knight' ...

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. Xylander was killed on 15 February 1945 in an airplane crash near Struppen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross on 20 February 1945.

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on 20 February 1945 as ''

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'' and Chief of the Generalstab of HeeresGruppe MitteFellgiebel 2000, p. 368.

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