Military
Name | Lifespan | Nationality | Achievements | Cause of Death |
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Erich Fellgiebel | 1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | officer and resistance fighter in the Third Reich | |
Ludwig Beck | 1880–1944, executed, Berlin | German | General, Putschist | |
Werner von Haeften | 1908–1944, executed, Berlin | German | jurist, adjutant of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | |
Erich Hoepner | 1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | demoted Colonel General, member of Military opposition about Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg | |
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim | 1905–1944, executed, Berlin | German | Colonel, Putschist | |
Friedrich Olbricht | 1888–1944, executed, Berlin | German | General, Putschist | |
Hans Oster | 1887–1945, executed, Flossenbürg | German | Chief of staff | |
Harro Schulze-Boysen | 1909–1942, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | officer, publicist | |
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 1907–1944, executed, Berlin | German | Chief of staff of General Army Office, Putschist | |
Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel | 1886–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | military commander in occupied France | |
Henning von Tresckow | 1901–1944, suicide, near Ostrov, Russia | German | Major General, Putschist | |
Erwin von Witzleben | 1881–1944, executed, Berlin-Plötzensee | German | retired Field Marshal | |
Wilhelm Canaris | 1887–1945, executed, Flossenbürg | German | military information service | |
Erwin Rommel | 1891–1944, forced suicide | German | Army(Wehrmacht), Field Marshal | |
Dmitry Karbyshev | 1880–1945, executed, Mauthausen | Russian | Army(RKKA), engineer commander | |
Dimitri Zouralis | d. 1941, executed | Greek | Army(Greek), Commander | |
Rudolf Viest | 1890–1945, executed, Flossenbürg | Slovak | Division General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising | |
Ján Golian | 1906–1945, executed, Flossenbürg | Slovak | Brigadier General, commander of the Slovak National Uprising |
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“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
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Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
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