__NOTOC__ Werner von Erdmannsdorff (27 July 1891 – 5 June 1945) was a general in the

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during

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. He was a recipient of the

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. He was married to Helene ''née'' von Tschirsky und Bögendorff (1895–1982).Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, ''Adelige Häuser A'' Band XXVII, Band 132 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, p. 318–319 As last commander of the LXXXXI Army Corps in Yugoslavia, Erdmannsdorff surrendered to the British troops in May 1945. He was

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to Yugoslavia and murdered without trial on 5 June 1945 by Yugoslav partisans in

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, alongside generals

Gustav Fehn __NOTOC__ Gustav Fehn (21 February 1892 – 5 June 1945) was a German general during World War II. Fehn served in the Afrika Korps from November 1942 to January 1943, LXXVI Panzer Corps from July–August 1943, the XXI Army Corps from October 19 ...

( XV Mountain Corps), Friedrich Stephan (

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) and Heinz Kattner (Feldkommandant of Sarajevo). He was the older brother of general

Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff __NOTOC__ Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff (25 April 1893 – 30 January 1946) was a German general during World War II. He was convicted by a Soviet military tribunal for war crimes at the Minsk Trial and executed in 1946. Fortress Mogilev On 27 Jun ...

, who himself would be hanged in Minsk in January 1946 for war crimes.

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on 8 March 1942 as ''

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'' and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 30 (mot.)

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