Wolfgang Thomale Explained

Wolfgang Thomale should not be confused with Richard Wolfgang Thomalla.

Wolfgang Thomale
Birth Date:	25 February 1900
Branch:	Army (Wehrmacht)
Serviceyears:	1918–45
Rank:	Generalleutnant
Battles:	World War IWorld War II Operation Barbarossa Battle of Białystok–Minsk Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Awards:	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Wolfgang Thomale (25 February 1900 – 20 October 1978) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He was a prisoner of war at Camp Ritchie in Maryland and was involved with the Hill Project, an effort to use German POWs to translate texts to better understand Military efforts of the Nazi regime following the end of the War.^[1]

Awards and decorations

• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 10 February 1942 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Panzer-Regiment 27^[2]

Bibliography

• Book: Fellgiebel , Walther-Peer . Walther-Peer Fellgiebel

. Walther-Peer Fellgiebel . 2000 . 1986 . Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile . The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches . German . Friedberg, Germany . Podzun-Pallas . 978-3-7909-0284-6.

Notes and References

1. https://www.academia.edu/12122243/Western_Allied_Intelligence_and_the_German_Military_Document_Section_1945_1946, Derek Mallett, 2011 (p.387).
2. Fellgiebel 2000, p. 342.