Years of service 1911–20
1935–45 Service/branch German Army Died December 8, 1953 | Name Gerd-Paul Below | |
Allegiance German Empire (to 1918)
Weimar Republic (to 1920)
Nazi Germany Rank Generalmajor of the Reserves Battles/wars World War II
Annexation of the Sudetenland
Invasion of Poland
Battle of the Netherlands
Operation Barbarossa
Siege of Leningrad
Courland Pocket Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Battles and wars Invasion of Poland, Battle of the Netherlands | ||
Commands held Grenadier-Regiment 374 | ||
Gerd-Paul Valerian Georg Heinrich von Below (30 November 1892 – 8 December 1953) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Below surrendered to the Soviet troops in May 1945 and died in captivity in 1953.
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