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Julius von Bernuth

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Years of service
  
1914–42

Service/branch
  
German Army

Died
  
July 12, 1942, Russia


Name
  
Julius Bernuth

Rank
  
Generalmajor

Julius von Bernuth

Allegiance
  
German Empire (to 1918)  Weimar Republic (to 1933)  Nazi Germany (to 1942)

Battles/wars
  
World War I World War II

Awards
  
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Battles and wars
  
World War I, World War II

Julius von Bernuth (12 August 1897 – 12 July 1942) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who served during World War II.

On 12 July 1942, while flying in a Fiesler Storch from Army headquarters to XXXX Army Corps headquarters, his aircraft disappeared. Searchers found his remains in the wreckage of the plane at Sumy, on 14 July 1942. He was buried near Stalingrad.

Awards and decorations

  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 5 August 1940 as Oberstleutnant in the general staff and chief of the general staff of the XV. Armeekorps
  • References

    Julius von Bernuth Wikipedia