| Walther Von Seydlitz-kurzbach |
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During WWI he participated on both fronts as an officer. During the Weimar Republic he remained a professional officer in the Reichswehr . He held the rank of (German: "Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland"). He was detested by many of his fellow generals for his anti-Nazi activities and received a Death Sentence In Absentia . He was a severly depressed man because of his collaboration to end the war. His fantastical ideas of flying in 30,000 German POW s to save Germany from the Soviet Government granted no inquisition and his family underwent Sippenhaft (detention for the crimes of a family member). As Seydlitz refused to take part in the Socialist rebuilding of the Soviet occupied zone he was sentenced to death there, too, but it was changed to lifelong imprisonment. In 1955 he was released to Western Germany, where in 1956 the Third Reich death sentence was nullified. REFERENCES
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