This Date in History: February 22

 

On February 22, 1944, Generalmajor Paul Gurran was killed in action leading his 23rd Infantry Division near Opotscka, Russia.  (Quiet Flows the Rhine, German General Officer Casualties in World War II)

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Karl Koller, Luftwaffe General of Flyers, born February 22, 1898 in Glonn/Munich, Chief of Staff of the 3rd Air Fleet, Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, wounded July 20, 1944 during the assassination attempt against Hitler, author of Der letzte Monat, died December 22, 1951 in Glonn/Munich, on Hermann Göring: “The Reichsmarschall never forgave us for not having conquered England.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)