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Gustav Knittel (27 November 1914 – 30 June 1976) was a Sturmbannführer (major) in the SS Division Leibstandarte (LSSAH) who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the illegal executions of 8 American prisoners of war, he was released in 1953.
Aug 9, 2018 · Gustav Knittel was a convicted war criminal and SS-Sturmbannfüher in the 1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (LSSHA). Youth Gustav Knittel was born November 27, 1914 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria in Germany. He had a twin brother, Bernard and two sisters.
Jul 1, 2017 · In this new biography of Waffen-SS officer Gustav Knittel, Timo Worst documents the life of a man who would become the head of the reconnaissance battalion of the 1st SS Panzer Division in Hitler’s Third Reich.
SS-Sturmbannführer Knittel attack the heavily occupied village of Fedorki on his own initiative. He managed to eject the enemy, destroy the greater part of their forces and secure the village.
Mar 26, 2006 · Knittel became known to history as he was tried for warcrimes committed by the Leibstandarte during the Ardennes Offensive, but this first chapter deals with his backgrounds, his youth and his years in the pre-war SS. I appologize to those forum members who do not read German.
In the summer of 1946, Gustav Knittel, a 31-year old former SS officer from the Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders his battalion, Schnelle Gruppe Knittel, had committed in and around the Belgian town of Stavelot during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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Gustav Knittel (* 27. November 1914 in Neu-Ulm; † 30. Juni 1976 in Ulm) war ein deutscher SS-Führer der Waffen-SS und Kriegsverbrecher
