Gratangen was the site of the Battle of Gratangen, one of the first battles between the German 3rd Mountain Division under Eduard Dietl and the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940.
Eduard Shevardnadze | Eduard Stiefel | Eduard Hanslick | Eduard Khil | Eduard, Duke of Anhalt | Eduard Buchner | Julius Eduard Hitzig | Friedrich Eduard Schulz | Eduard Zeller | Eduard Tubin | Eduard Spranger | Eduard Mörike | Eduard Kuznetsov | Eduard Heis | Eduard Dietl | Eduard Brunner | Eduard van Beinum | Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard Suess | Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Sievers | Eduard Puricelli | Eduard Prchal | Eduard Pechuël-Loesche | Eduard Nalbandyan | Eduard Knoblauch | Eduard Gufeld | Slavoljub Eduard Penkala | Raphael Eduard Liesegang | ''Lehnin Abbey Ruins'': Eduard Gaertner |
On the morning of 4 June 1942 at Immola airfield near Imatra, Seidel was the first German general to arrive, followed within a few hours by Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Generaloberst Eduard Dietl, and then Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel who accompanied Hitler.
On June 23, 1944, a Junkers Ju 52 aircraft carrying von Wickede, General der Gebirgstruppe Karl Eglseer, Generaloberst Eduard Dietl, Generalleutnant Franz Rossi and three other passengers crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria; there were no survivors.
Transported by ten destroyers from the Kriegsmarine, the German Task Force under command of General der Infanterie Eduard Dietl had occupied Narvik and the important military depots at Elvegårdsmoen in the early hours of 9 April 1940.