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Years of service
  
1906–45

Service/branch
  
German Army

Name
  
Ernst-Eberhard Hell

Rank
  
General der Artillerie


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Buried at
  
South Cemetery Wiesbaden

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918) Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany

Battles/wars
  
World War IWorld War IIBattle of FranceOperation BarbarossaBattle of Bialystok–MinskBattle of Smolensk (1941)Battle of MoscowBattle of KurskCherkassy PocketFirst Jassy-Kishinev OffensiveJassy–Kishinev Offensive (August 1944)

Died
  
September 15, 1973, Wiesbaden, Germany

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, Battle of France

Commands held
  
269th Infantry Division, 15th Infantry Division, VII Army Corps

Place of burial
  
South Cemetery Wiesbaden

Ernst-Eberhard Hell (19 September 1887 – 15 September 1973) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He commanded several divisions and later an army corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.

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Hell surrendered to the Soviet forces in August 1944 during the Soviet Jassy–Kishinev Offensive (August 1944). He was held in the Soviet Union as a war criminal until 1955.

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Awards and decorations

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  • Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (11 September 1914) & 1st Class
  • Military Merit Order, 4th class with Swords (Bavaria)
  • Military Merit Cross, 3rd class with War Decoration (Austria-Hungary)
  • Silver Liakat Medal with Sabres
  • Ottoman War Medal (Turkish: Harp Madalyası; "Gallipoli Star", "Iron Crescent")
  • Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (12 May 1940) & 1st Class (17 May 1940)
  • German Cross in Gold on 14 June 1942 as General der Artillerie and commander of VII Army Corps
  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Knight's Cross on 1 February 1943 as General der Artillerie and commander of VII Army Corps
  • 400th Oak Leaves on 4 June 1944 as General der Artillerie and commander of VII Army Corps

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    References

    Ernst-Eberhard Hell Wikipedia
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