That guy had balls of steel. Big steel ones.
And he got off easy with a firing squad.
He came from an old school Prussian family. His family was part of the military class in pre-nazi Germany. Born and raised to be a soldier from an early age, he saw what was happening to his country and tried to do something before Germany was destroyed. He failed and Hitler made sure everybody and everything fought to the bitter end. Hitler turned Germany into an open grave.
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Indeed. IIRC, piano wire around the neck in front of whirring cameras was the fate of a few.