Word: wartenburg
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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...
...embodied their great tradition and their desperate dilemma was the man who indicted Yorck von Wartenburg and his seven gallows-mates for treason against the Third Reich and conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler-Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt...
...Rundstedt send Field Marshal von Witzleben, Colonel General Erich Hoepner, Major General Helmuth Stieff, Count Yorck von Wartenburg and the others to the gallows because he had no choice? Did he hope to shield other Wehrmacht generals by acting as the grand inquisitor? When known, the answers to these questions will form an interesting page of history. But they do not alter the fact that the Junker and the Nazis are both very close to the end of their respective ropes. Nor the fact that Germany is now a land divided against itself - although still held together by the frame...