__NOTOC__ Wolf-Dietrich von Xylander (9 April 1903 – 15 February 1945) was a German general during

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. He was a recipient of the

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. Xylander was killed on 15 February 1945 in an airplane crash near Struppen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross on 20 February 1945.

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on 20 February 1945 as ''

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'' and Chief of the Generalstab of HeeresGruppe MitteFellgiebel 2000, p. 368.

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