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Six thousand people, including many former SS men, attended his funeral. Dietrich was married twice: he was divorced from his first wife in 1937 and remarried in 1942. He had three children.
He was revered by his former soldiers to the end: over six thousand people attended his funeral, and his flag-draped coffin was borne by six Knights Cross winners. World War II Nazi German SS General.
- May 28, 1892
THE SON OF A POOR BAVARIAN PEASANT, DIETRICH BECAME ONE OF HITLER'S MOST TRUSTED OFFICERS AND COMMANDED THE FUEHRER'S PERSONAL BODYGUARD FROM ITS EARLY DAYS UNTIL IT WAS EXPANDED INTO AN EXCLUSIVE FIGHTING DIVISION.
Jun 16, 2003 · Hi! Here's a link to an auction on Militariaweb - 35 photos documenting the funeral. The text translates as: "35 photos of the Dietrich's funeral in Ludwigsburg, 1966. Original photos of the company Foto Zellner. The negatives do not exist anymore.
Apr 27, 2016 · LUDWIGSBURG, WEST GERMANY — Former SS Col. Gen. Sepp Dietrich, Hitler’s favorite soldier, was carried today [April 27] by weeping ex-generals to a hillside grave in this town of baroque castles.
Death and burial ground Dietrich, Josef “Sepp”. Sepp Dietrich lived in Ludwigsburg and died of heart failure in bed, on 21-04-1966, at the age of 73 and Hitler birthday and he would have been 79 years old then, A 6.000 old comrades joined his funeral on the Neuer Friedhof of Ludwigsburg.
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Sepp Dietrich died of a heart attack in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg on 21st April 1966 at the age of 73, and his body still rests in the town’s Neuer Friedhof cemetery today. The respect among his subordinates and peers remained solid until the end, and more than six thousand people would attend his funeral.
