Friedrich Bernhard

Friedrich Bernhard was a German Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry, serving during World War II as a Panzer commander. He was a recipient of the German Cross in Gold on 17 March 1944. He held command of Special Corps 532 in the 9th [Army (Wehrmacht)|9th Army]. After being captured by the Red Army, he was sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal in Bryansk on 29 December 1945 for atrocities committed in the Bryansk area, and was subsequently executed the following morning.