Career
Armeekorps. The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He took up his command in Crete in May 1944 after the kidnap of General Kreipe by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss working with Cretan andartes. Friebe was captured by American troops in May 1945 and was released in 1947.
Helmut Friebe was the older brother of Generalmajor Werner Friebe, who is also a Knight"s Cross recipient.
Iron Cross (1914) Bibliography.
