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...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...
Last week among the eight 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...