Willibald Borowietz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Willibald Borowietz

German General and Knight's Cross recipient

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1893

Place of Birth: Racibórz, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1945

Profession: military personnel, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Willibald Borowietz

  • Willibald Borowietz (17 September 1893 – 1 July 1945) was a German general during World War II who commanded several divisions.
  • He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Borowietz surrendered to Allied forces together with the Afrika Korps.
  • He was held as a POW by the United States in Camp Clinton, Mississippi, where he committed suicide by electrocuting himself in a bathtub on 1 July 1945.
  • Officially his death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.His wife, Eva Ledien, was of Jewish descent.
  • She committed suicide in October 1938 so that their children could be Aryanized.
  • Eva's sister, Käthe (Ledien) Bosse, was killed in Ravensbrück concentration camp on 16 December 1944.

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