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In total, 43 individuals in the military of allies of Nazi Germany were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest award in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. Eight of these men were also honoured with the next higher grade, the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross, and one senior naval officer, Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (pictured), was additionally awarded the Swords to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. Among the recipients were eighteen Romanians, nine Italians, eight Hungarians, two Slovaks, two Japanese people, two Spanish people, two Finns, and one Belgian. Léon Degrelle, the sole Belgian, received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross while subordinated to the Wehrmacht. The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht kept an alphabetical list of recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, but foreign recipients were never integrated into this list. The Wehrmacht also refrained from assigning a numbering scheme to the different lists of foreign recipients. Colonel General Dezső László of Hungary became the last foreign recipient of the award on 3 March 1945. (Full list...)