Julius von Bernuth

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|name=Julius von Bernuth

|birth_date=12 August 1897

|death_date={{death-date and age|12 July 1942|12 August 1897}}

|birth_place=Metz

|death_place=Sumy, Soviet Union

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World War II

|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

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

He was an early Nazi supporter and was a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. He was later awarded the Blood Order.

On 12 July 1942, while flying in a Fieseler 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

Iron Cross (1914), 1st and 2nd class
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939), 1st and 2nd class
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. ArmeekorpsScherzer 2007, p. 217.

References

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{{Cite book

|last=Scherzer

|first=Veit

|year=2007

|title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives

|trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives

|language=German

|location=Jena, Germany

|publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag

|isbn=978-3-938845-17-2

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Category:1897 births

Category:1942 deaths

Category:Major generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht)

Category:Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross