The National Committee for a Free Germany was an anti-fascist political and military organisation formed in the Soviet Union during World War II, composed mostly of German defectors from the ranks of
Members of the NKFD, including Hans-Günther van Hooven, Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Karl Hetz, Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Erich Weinert and Luitpold Steidle.
Colonel Hans-Günther van Hooven, photographed at the BDO foundation ceremony
NKFD headquarters c. 1943–1945, promising Friede, Freiheit, Brot ("Peace, Freedom and Bread," a callback to Lenin's slogan of "peace, land, and bread")
Grave of Lt. Horst Vieth [pl] killed in combat with Wehrmacht during the siege of Breslau
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who is best known for being the commander of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle ended
National Committee for a Free Germany
…the German armed forces. A number of officers held as Soviet prisoners of war eventually joined the BDO, the most prominent of them being Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army captured at the Battle of Stalingrad. The BDO later merged with the NKFD. During their discussions of Fascism, Nazism, the…
Paulus (third from right) attending a meeting at the headquarters of Army Group South with Adolf Hitler on 1 June 1942
Paulus arriving in southern Russia, January 1942
Paulus (right) with General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach in Stalingrad, November 1942