Word: paulus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German officers since the summer of 1943. But the spearheads of its appeal to the German people are two Wehrmacht aristocrats who surrendered at Stalingrad: General Walther von Seydlitz, Prussian founder of the Union of German Officers, and the union's highest-ranking member, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus...
...Boomerang. Paulus is the member who probably means most to Germans. In 1942 and early 1943, Goebbels plugged him as a staunch Nazi, the victor of Rostov, a man who outranked Heinz Guderian as a tank genius...
Allied correspondents have never forgotten their first view of Paulus at reconquered Stalingrad: a tall, forbidding figure emerging from a hut, holding himself disdainful, starch-stiff and aloof from his Russian captors. At that time the Russians had half a mind to hang him: they had found one of his orders consigning Stalingrad's population to slave labor in Germany...
...months, while Seydlitz and others were calling on their countrymen to quit, Paulus was Junker-silent. But the Russians and his fellow officers labored to convince him that Hitler's Germany was lost...
That idea also fitted the Field Marshal's belief that Hitler's stubbornness and stupidity had doomed Paulus' mighty Sixth Army to a hopeless stand at Stalingrad. He was also outraged by Hitler's hanging of his fellow Field Marshal, Erwin von Witzleben. On Aug. 14, 1944, Friedrich von Paulus addressed an open letter to the German Army and people: "For Germany the war is lost. . . because of the political and military leadership 'of Adolf Hitler. . . . Germany must get rid of Adolf Hitler and establish a new state leadership which will bring...