Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny

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Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny
5 September 1912(1912-09-05) – 25 August 1985 (aged 72)
Place of birth Angerburg
Place of death Hannover
Allegiance Flag of Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch Waffen SS
Rank Sturmbannführer
Unit SS-PzGrenRgt 3 "Deutschland"
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
Close Combat Clasp in Gold

Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny (5 September 1912 in Angerburg - 25 August 1985 in Hannover) was a highly decorated German Waffen-SS officer.

Wiscliceny enlisted in the SS-Stabswache Berlin in 1933, he was posted in 1938 to the Der Führer Regiment, seeing his first action as a company commander in the Balkans in spring 1941. He spent 1941 to 1943 on the Eastern front and 1944 in France, fighting in all the battles of the senior SS devisions, and being wounded four times. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for leadership of a battalion during the battles for the Kursk salient in July 1943. He received the Oak Leaves on 27 December 1944, at the Normandy invasion front. The Swords were awarded for his actions in the Ardennes, Hungary and Austria. In 1945 he was handed over by the US Army to the French during investigations into his divisions's war crimes at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane, but was released in 1951.

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