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Dietrich von Choltitz (* 9 November 1894 in meadow (Schlesien); " 5 November 1966 in Baden-Baden) was a German general and 1944 commander of city of Paris.
From Choltitz served in the First World War at the west front, last as a second lieutenant. It remained in the Weimar Republic in the realm resistance, where it was starting from 1929 ride masters and boss of a Kavallerie Eskadron. It became later first than major, then 1938 than lieutenant colonel Kommandeur of the 3. Battalion of the air landing infantry regiment 16.
After beginning of the Second World War battalion was mainly 1940 in the occupation of the bridges of Rotterdam involved by air landing troops of Choltitz'. For this it received to 18. May 1940 the knight cross. In September 1940 commander of the entire regiment became, since 1941 as a Colonel from Choltitz. In the war against the Soviet Union unit was considerably involved in conquest Sewastopols in June 1942 of Choltitz'. 1942 it was promoted to major general, 1943 to the lieutenant general. It e.g. kommandierte the 260. Infantry division, was deputy commander and late commander of different army corps and tank corps; by March 1944 on in Italy and since June 1944 at the west front.
On 1 August 1944 from Choltitz to the general of the infantry one carried and one appointed on 7 August the armed forces commander of Paris. General Dietrich von Choltitz arrived on 9 August 1944 in Paris. In the following 16 days to defend and/or leave as destroyed city Paris up to the last man from Choltitz Adolf Hitler opposed several instructions. The leader instruction from 23 August read: "Paris may not fall or only as rubble field into the hand of the enemy." Most well-known quotation from a telephone call of Hitler also of Choltitz is Hitler's question "burns
By a mixture from active establishment of contact with the enemy, intensive negotiations with the demonstration of strength (military parades) and threats could from Choltitz the riot and rebellion of the population thus fights and destruction in the world metropolis, serious of Paris and, prevent. Dietrich von Choltitz handed the city after delaying resistance in some suburbs of Paris almost intact on 25 August 1944 against 14.45 o'clock at general Leclerc of the French army and the communist Henri Rol Tanguy, the leader to that over Paris Resistance/FFI. It prevented thereby a second Stalingrad and of many sides very much "public-effectively" than "rescuers of Paris" was later regarded.
It was brought to park into the English prisoner-of-war camp Trent. There the discussions of the caught officers were secretly heard. On the one hand therein closer connections from Choltitz' to the resistance become clearly, than so far admits. On the other hand he accuses himself also 1941/42 of the participation in war crimes in Russia, probably on the Krim. "The heaviest order, which I accomplished," is the liquidation of the Jews", confessed from Choltitz opposite its comrades in Trent park, "I this order however also up to the last consequence accomplished."
1947 became a general from allies war shank to dismiss. Dietrich von Choltitz died on 5 November 1966 at a war suffering of many years (Lungenemphysem) in the city hospital in Baden-Baden. He was buried at the city cemetery of Baden-Baden in presence of also high French officers.
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