Word: seydlitz
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...July 1943, enough Wehrmacht men had been won over to set up the Free Germany Committee. By September, there were enough recruits to organize the League of German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count...
...summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death in absentia on General Walther von Seydlitz, head of Moscow's League of German Officers...
...hanged by Heinrich Himmler for conspiracy against the Nazis, was Count Yorck von Wartenburg, the patriotic traitor's great-grandson. Yorck von Wartenburg was hanged, among other things, because he was suspected of conspiracy with the head of Moscow's League of German Officers, General Walther von Seydlitz...
...Rundstedt was ill. He was well but under house arrest. He had sent his trusted aide, Lieut. Colonel von Harbour, to Lisbon to deal with Allied diplomats. The SS had caught and shot Harbour. Rundstedt had lost all hope of winning the war, had made contact with General von Seydlitz and Moscow's League of German Officers. But rumors about Rundstedt were nothing...
...This week Seydlitz' former commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, silent since his capture at Stalingrad, declared: "The war is lost for Germany. . . . Because of the state and military leadership of Hitler ... the war has been transformed into a senseless bloodshed...