Hitter, Alfons
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| Birthname | Alfons Clemens Hitter | ||||
| born on | 4 June 1892 at 06:30 (= 06:30 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Hochstatt, France, 47n4210, 7e1636 | ||||
| Timezone | CET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 206th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Hitter surrendered to the Soviet forces during Operation Bagration when his division was encircled and destroyed at Vitebsk. Convicted as a war criminal in the Soviet Union, he was held in prison for eleven years, joining the National Committee for a Free Germany while in captivity. He was released in 1955.
He died on 11 March 1968 in Thomasberg.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield forwarded birth certificate n°22 from the online Haut-Rhin departmental archives, image 285/297: "Vormittags sechs ein halb Uhr" (half past six in the morning). Death data in margin.
Categories
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Prison sentence (War criminal)
- Vocation : Military : Honors
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Politics : Nazi party
