This Date in History: April 10

Johann Mickl was born in Radkersburg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on April 18, 1893.  On April 9, 1945, the commander of the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, Generalleutnant Johann Mickl was wounded in the head fighting Yugoslav partisans.  Transported to a field hospital on a tank, his transport was further ambushed by partisans and he received two more wounds in his lungs.  He died at Rijeka, Croatia on April 10, 1945.  (Quiet Flows the Rhine: German General Officer Casualties in World War II)

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Otto-Friedrich “Fritz” Bernotat, SS-Standartenführer, born Mittel Jodupp, East Prussia, April 10, 1890, Nazi state administrator in the district of Hessen-Nassau in Wiesbaden, winner of the Iron Cross 2nd Class in World War I, winner Nazi Golden Party Badge, on staff of SS-Oberabschnitt Rhein-Westmark, winner of Nazi Golden Party Badge, died in 1951 in Neuhof near Fulda under an assumed name, on patient load in hospitals:

“If you have too many patients in your institution, just beat them to death, and then you will have space.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)