Erwin von Witzleben
German field marshal (1881–1944)
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Wehrmacht generalfeldmarschall who plotted Hitler's assassination on July 20, 1944—and was slated to run the military if it worked. Executed after a show trial.
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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.
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