PLANE CRASH
Generaloberst Eduard Dietl (1890-1944). On 23 June 1944, Generaloberst Dietl, the highly decorated commander of the 20. Gebirgsarmee and recipient of the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern, perished in a tragic aviation accident when the Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft carrying him, along with General der Infanterie Thomas-Emil von Wickede, General der Gebirgstruppe Karl Eglseer, Generalleutnant Franz Rossi, and several crew members, crashed into a mountainside near the village of Rettenegg in Reichsgau Steiermark amid poor weather conditions, resulting in the deaths of all aboard just two days after his fifty-third birthday as he returned from operations in the northern theater.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross_recipients
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