Erwin von Witzleben
✶December 4, 1881
†August 9, 1944
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✶December 4, 1881
†August 9, 1944
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Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht and Oberbefehlshaber West, during the Second World War. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become commander in chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime, had the plot succeeded. After being dishonourably discharged by the Ehrenhof, he was murdered, after a show trial from the Volksgerichtshof.
German field marshal (1881–1944)
Biography from the article Erwin von Witzleben on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.