Karl Strecker
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Karl Strecker was a German general during World War II who commanded several army corps on the Eastern Front. A career military and police professional, he fought in World War I and then served in the
Karl Strecker as General der Infanterie
An armory outside the Tractor Plant used by Strecker as a makeshift HQ in the final days of the Battle of Stalingrad
Walter Heitz
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Walter Heitz was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He served as President of the Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Karl Strecker
…was not allowed to receive mail until 1947 due to his refusal to cooperate with his captors. Along with Carl Rodenburg, Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin, Walter Heitz, and the 6th Army's Chief of Staff Arthur Schmidt, he was part of the "anti-communist" faction of officers in his camp who refused to cooperate with…
Heitz in 1936
Heitz in 1936 as the President of the Reichskriegsgericht (Reich Military Court)
Hitler touring the WWI battlefields of Arras with Heitz, a fellow veteran, May 1940
Heitz reviews a formation of Hungarian and German soldiers in the Soviet Union, 1942