Word: seydlitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 112,000, including the new "alert police" (who were wearing green-dyed Luftwaffe uniforms), were under arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
Committee No. 2 was the League of German Officers. It consists of German officers and soldiers captured by the Russians at Stalingrad and elsewhere. Its most publicized leaders were Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who commanded the German armies at Stalingrad; General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the German LI Army Corps at Stalingrad; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck...
...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...
...German brains probably are such Communist civilians as Wilhelm Pieck and Erich Weinert, who have been softening up captured 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...
...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...