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...signed became known as the Convention of Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national hero, was made Count von Wartenburg...
...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...
...Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
...Seydlitz himself asked Paulus' permission to ignore Hitler's order and break through the Russian ring while it could still be done. On Nov. 24, he filed a written protest against Hitler's decision. But it was already too late...
Last week, 13 months after the debacle, Seydlitz delivered the verdict: "From a conference table 1,400 miles away, without any investigation or discussion on the spot . . . 22 of the best German divisions were ordered to form a hedgehog. Hitler alone is responsible for accepting the encirclement. He prevented an immediate possible break-through ... Goring supported Hitler with an irresponsible promise. Hitler and Goring must forever be haunted by the 250,000 dead German soldiers of Stalingrad...