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    Werner Kreipe (12 April 1904 – 7 September 1967) was a German World War II Luftwaffe General der Flieger. Kreipe joined the Luftwaffe in 1934. Kreipe...
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  • Kreipe is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Heinrich Kreipe (1895–1976), German general Werner Kreipe (1904–1967), German general...
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  • Luftwaffe ("Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe"), Generalleutnant Werner Kreipe and to replace him provisionally on 13 September 1944 with the stolid...
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    Kaltenbrunner Emil Ketterer Günther Korten Fritz Ritter von Krausser Werner Kreipe Theodor Kretschmer Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper Erich Ludendorff Emil Maurice...
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  • Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe (5 June 1895 – 14 June 1976) was a German career soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. While leading...
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    (1898–1944) 25 August 1943 22 July 1944 † 332 days – – Kreipe, WernerGeneral der Flieger Werner Kreipe (1904–1967) Acting 2 August 1944 28 October 1944 87 days...
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    Generalleutnant Werner Kreipe—Chief of the Luftwaffe's General Staff—to prepare the necessary aircraft for the offensive. On 21 October, Kreipe ordered the...
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    Preceded by Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff 4 September 1943 – 22 July 1944 Succeeded by General der Flieger Werner Kreipe...
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  • again did the Luftwaffe operate in such numbers over Britain. General Werner Kreipe described it as a "strategic (Luftwaffe) failure" and a "turning point...
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    Klepke (1882–1945) Robert Knauss (1892–1955) Karl Koller (1898–1951) Werner Kreipe (1904–1967) Otto Langemeyer (1883–1950) Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen...
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  • Generalmajor Walter Boenicke, 22 June 1940 – 8 November 1941 Oberst Werner Kreipe, 8 November 1941 – 25 October 1942 Oberst Klaus Uebe, 25 October 1942...
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  • That day, Hitler informed General der Flieger (Lieutenant General) Werner Kreipe, acting Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe, about the planned...
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  • That day, Hitler informed General der Flieger (Lieutenant General) Werner Kreipe, acting Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe, about the planned...
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    Heinrich Kreipe, was abducted by a British Special Operations Executive team led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor and Captain W. Stanley Moss. Kreipe's car was...
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  • Werner Hermann Karl Ebeling (21 November 1913 – 25 August 2008) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and a general in the...
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    worst day of the western campaign for KG 2 was 27 May, when Major Werner Kreipe's III. Gruppe lost 11 out of 27 Do 17s to RAF fighters over Dunkirk....
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  • Hermann-Heinrich Behrend1 (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Ebeling(Oak Leaves) Gerhard Hein (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kreipe Gerhard Boldt 1 Knight's Cross with the 269th...
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  • von Kraußer, SA General Albert Krebs, NSDAP Gauleiter of Hamburg Heinrich Kreipe, German Army General Hermann Kriebel, NSDAP supporter Friedrich-Wilhelm...
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    German U-boat commander. Michael Powell wanted Jurgens to play Heinrich Kreipe in Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) but the Rank Organisation would not pay his...
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  • He took up his command in Crete in May 1944 after the kidnap of General Kreipe by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss working with Cretan andartes...
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    Met by Moonlight (1950), a non-fiction book about the kidnap of General Kreipe during WWII. The book was adapted into a film with the same name in 1957...
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  • Hermann-Heinrich Behrend1 (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Ebeling(Oak Leaves) Gerhard Hein (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kreipe Gerhard Boldt 1 Knight's Cross with the 269th...
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    Generalfeldmarschall Theodor Krancke, Kriegsmarine Admiral Heinrich Kreipe, Generalmajor Werner Lorenz, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Kurt Lottner...
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    Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) co-starring Marius Goring as German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor (Bogarde) and W. Stanley...
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    Hermann-Heinrich Behrend1 (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Ebeling(Oak Leaves) Gerhard Hein (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kreipe Gerhard Boldt 1 Knight's Cross with the 269th...
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    superiority, which caused the Allies many losses in ships. Vice Admiral Werner Lange, German Naval Commander-in-Chief of the Aegean, tried to reinforce...
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  • Hermann-Heinrich Behrend1 (Oak Leaves & Swords) Werner Ebeling(Oak Leaves) Gerhard Hein (Oak Leaves) Heinrich Kreipe Gerhard Boldt 1 Knight's Cross with the 269th...
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  • Fund is incorporated in the United States. April 26 – WWII: German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete, Greece. American submarine USS Jack torpedoes Japanese...
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    Battalion commander in Grenadier-Regiment 261 28 January 1943 — — Heinrich Kreipe Heer 16-HOberstleutnant Commander of Infanterie-Regiment 209 13 October...
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    "Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage...
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