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3 unusual facts about Otto Hitzfeld


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Otto Hitzfeld (1898–1990), German officer in both World War I and World War II

Otto Hitzfeld

Wounded for the fifth time on 15 August 1942 near Krasnodar, he received the Wound Badge in Gold by the End of the War.

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Hitzfeld, whose nephew Ottmar Hitzfeld is the current manager of the Swiss football team, was promoted to Generalmajor on 1 April 1943 and officially put in command of the 102.



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