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Eduard Dietl
Lieutenant General Eduard Dietl commanded the German 3rd Mountain Division that participated in the German invasion of Norway on April 9 and 10, 1940. Most of this division was landed at Trondheim and Narvik by a naval force on 9 April. British naval forces led by the battleship Warspite destroyed all ten German destroyers that had ferried Dietl's troops to Narvik and managed to recapture the town, but Dietl's mountaineers withdrew into the hills and later retook the town when Britain abandoned its efforts to evict the Germans from Norway.
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